American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237049727
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122924499
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,912,053
- Expenses
- $3,873,494
- Assets
- $13,842,813
- Liabilities
- $27,138
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MERI BARER (PRESIDENT)
- NAOMI REINHARZ (CEO (THRU JUNE 2025))
Highest reported compensation
- SARI KATZ ARSHADNIA (DIRECTOR, WESTERN REGION): $376,867 total reported compensation
- NAOMI REINHARZ (CEO (THRU JUNE 2025)): $357,500 total reported compensation
- NATHANIEL GOLDMAN (CFO): $259,916 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote and support the rambam health care campus, the premier medical center in northern israel.
What it reported doing in 2025
American friends of rambam medical center is the primary u.s. Organization supporting rambam health care campus in haifa, israel. During 2025, the organization awarded over $2.6 million in grants to advance excellence in medicine, scientific research and equitable medical care for patients in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -33%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.57; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.9% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $377K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.