American Friends of Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854082192
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3475567553
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,000
- Expenses
- $75,170
- Assets
- $1,420
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAY MENS (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- SHLOMO ROITER JESNER (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JAY MENS (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- SHLOMO ROITER JESNER (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- PATRIK KURATH (SECRETARY & 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The forum educates on all subjects relating to the politics, international relations and contemporary affairs of the middle east and north africa. The forum advances public knowledge about the importance of the region to british foreign policy, and facilitates education about geopolitics and grand strategy more generally.
What it reported doing in 2024
The forum facilitates a range of speaker events and roundtables, policy research including research briefs, strategic memos and long-form articles. The forum also facilitates the dissemination of educational information in national and international publications and media.events are usually an hour to two hours long, featuring between one and four speakers. Speakers talk for around 10 to 15 minutes each (or longer for individual guests) and then have between an hour and 30 minutes of q&a. The forum hosts diverse panels featuring speakers with different, often clashing points of view. The composition of our executive, events and research teams is culturally and politically diverse to avoid bias.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -200.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.