Aice Inc American-israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521865861
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Phone
3015653918
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Promotion of International Understanding

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$601,425
Expenses
$356,147
Assets
$756,856
Liabilities
$3,580

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MITCHELL G BARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • NORMAN GOLDSTEIN (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MITCHELL G BARD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $150,000 total reported compensation
  • OR SHAKED (DEPUTY DIRECTOR): $88,741 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promoting education regarding american-israeli issues

What it reported doing in 2025

Myths and facts: to help israel's supporters become better informed, aice has published the edition of myths and facts: a guide to the arab-israeli conflict. This comprehensive edition features new and updated information that will help any advocate of israel better respond to the myths that have been propagated from recent events such as the second lebanon war, operation cast lead and the arab spring. The book also highlights answers to timeworn accusations against israel and contains factual responses for combating the campaign to delegitimize israel. The book offers documented historical facts about all aspects of the conflict and has been updated to include the latest information about israel's security situation, the wars with hezbollah and hamas and the continued delegitimization of israel on university campuses.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 53
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 39.7%; rating input score 40
  • Program expense ratio: 62.9%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 67%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 39.7% of revenue deployed · 62.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $224K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.