American Council for World Jewry Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200995247
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2128290100
Rating
44
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Minority Rights
Affiliation
Judaism

Reported finances

Revenue
$252
Expenses
$5,124
Assets
$311,150
Liabilities
$98,500

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JACK ROSEN (CHAIRMAN)
  • EDWARD AMIACH (DIRECTOR)
  • PROSPER ASSOULINE (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Founded so jews, worldwide, can join together in partnership, ensuring our common good and coolective survival. The council acts in the belief that the key to successfully countering threats against the jewish people and the state if israel is political empowerment and between all races and religions, to foster a better understanding of the jewish people and the state of israel, and to stem acts of anti-semitism. Form 990, part iii, line 1, description of organization mission: involvement. Therefore, the council's central mission is to articulate the concerns of local jewish communities, internationally, to the united states congress and executive branch and to political leaders around the globe with whom we have built strong bonds of friendship and trust.

What it reported doing in 2025

American council of world jewry, inc. Normally holds conferences to bring together the members of the council, supporters and community leaders to discuss issues surrounding muslims, israel and the middle east.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,933.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 60.72; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.