American Conference of Cantors
Legal name: American Conference of Cantors Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132666627
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Schaumburg, IL, United States
- Phone
- 847-781-7800
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,620,543
- Expenses
- $1,474,955
- Assets
- $8,844,361
- Liabilities
- $6,390,512
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANTOR CLAIRE FRANCO (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT THRU 7/2/25)
- CANTOR DAVID SHUKIAR (GTM PRESIDENT (THRU 7/2/25))
- CANTOR DEBORRAH CANNIZZARO (DIRECTOR (VICE PRESIDENT THRU 7/2/25))
- CANTOR JAMIE MARX (VICE PRESIDENT (DIRECTOR THRU 7/2/25))
- CANTOR JASON KAUFMAN (VICE PRESIDENT (DIRECTOR THRU 7/2/25))
- CANTOR JOSHUA BREITZER (PRESIDENT (VICE PRESIDENT THRU 7/2/25))
Highest reported compensation
- RACHEL ROTH (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $158,098 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As Jewish religious leaders and role models, cantors are called upon to exemplify and abide by Judaism's highest moral and ethical ideals. ACC Mission Statement The American Conference of Cantors supports its members in their sacred calling as emissaries for Judaism and for Jewish music. ACC leadership draws upon the energies and aspirations of its individual members, while responding to the expressed needs of the larger membership and the Reform Movement. The Conference inspires its members to embrace a shared dynamic vision of the cantorate. This vision is realized through programs and initiatives that will ensure a strong and successful organization. Each such effort is conceived according to carefully determined goals and criteria. Through our members we provide our communities with a compelling experience of text, music, l.
What it reported doing in 2024
Leadership and spirituality - the organization works to promote leadership and spirituality through its convention and conference activities to enhance the cantorial experience for congregants to promote the overall goals of the judaism reform movement as an affiliate of the union of reform judaism.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $46.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $158K · 35 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.