Jewish Home

Jewish Home

Jewish Home was founded in 1920 as a faith-based, non-profit elder-care institution in Rochester, New York. The organization operates under the parent entity Jewish Senior Life, with Michael S. King serving as President and CEO of both the operating foundation and its holding company. Unlike a grantmaking foundation, Jewish Home's assets are deployed to directly sustain a continuum of residential and care services for older adults, including independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, and community-based programs. The organization's deployment is concentrated in direct real estate holdings on its Rochester campus. The portfolio spans six named facilities: the main Jewish Home campus at 2021 Winton Road South, The Summit at Brighton, Wolk Manor, The Lodge at Wolk Manor, Green House Cottages, and Marian's House. These properties function both as mission-aligned operating assets and as the foundation's primary store of value. The Green House Cottages reflect a specific model of small-scale, deinstitutionalized skilled nursing that the foundation adopted as part of a national movement. Jewish Home does not operate as a diversified institutional investor — it allocates capital almost entirely within its own service-delivery footprint in Western New York. Governance sits with a local board chaired by Alan Kinel, and a separate foundation board chaired by Richard L. Goldstein oversees philanthropic fundraising through the Jewish Senior Life Foundation. Michael King also holds board seats at LeadingAge NY and the Association of Jewish Aging Services, embedding the organization within national industry networks that shape policy and operating standards for non-profit senior care. The foundation has not disclosed a professional investment staff, consistent with a model where the CEO and board directly steward the real estate and modest financial reserves. What distinguishes Jewish Home structurally is its identity as an operating foundation with zero separation between asset ownership and service delivery. The foundation does not make grants, invest in third-party funds, or pursue financial returns independent of its mission. Its balance sheet is its bed count. This makes it legible to an institutional allocator not as a funder but as an owner-operator of care infrastructure — a model more common among religiously affiliated senior-living networks than in the broader endowment universe.