American Jewish Congress
Legal name: American Jewish Congress Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131679610
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 212-879-4500
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Human Rights
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $287,027
- Expenses
- $533,526
- Assets
- $19,910
- Liabilities
- $377,669
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL ROSEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JACK ROSEN (CHAIRMAN)
- MICHAEL MELNICKE (TREASURER)
- JOHN KRUGER (SECRETARY)
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
108 Years Fighting for Jewish Rights, Interests, and Values. Our mission is to combat antisemitism and strengthen US–Israel relations by engaging, uniting, and empowering the Jewish community. At pivotal moments, from the Holocaust and Israel’s founding to October 7 and the global surge in antisemitism, the organization has promoted public policy initiatives, cultivated local, national and international political relationships, built bridges across diverse communities, and invested in the next generation of leaders. Through advocacy, legislation, legal action, strategic partnerships and innovative programming, the American Jewish Congress continues to equip the Jewish community to respond to the present challenges and build a stronger, mor.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mayors conference: mayors from all over the world participate in the conference which is held in israel. The conference topic addresses the issues and challenges which all 21st century municipals leaders face. The visiting mayors have a chance to meet with israel's top political leadership, and with israeli entrepreneurs that are responsible for groundbreaking technologies that address diverse urban needs. Visiting mayor also visit cutting-edge high- tech facilities, and embark on a tour of the country's urban start-ups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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
STRONG - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -85.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 18.97; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $448K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.