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The Israelite Charity Committee of Paris was, in the late 19th century, the militant branch of Jewish charitable institutions in Paris. It endeavoured to rescue poor members of the Jewish community in the French capital. A study of the changes in the Committee’s board between 1887 and 1904 shows how it gradually opened up beyond strictly confessional boundaries. The occupations of its members grew more diverse, and they were more spread out geographically, outside the ‘traditional’ Jewish districts of Paris and into new bourgeois residential areas. Whereas many of its members were members of non-religious charitable organisations and its members took part in the International Congress of Public Assistance and Private Charity in 1900, the Israelite Charity Committee’s methods were streamlined and secularised, covering new subjects and gradually aligned with the practices supported by charity organisers in Paris.