American Jewish Medical Association (AJMA)
Legal name: American Jewish Medical Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934844109
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7036253853
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $405,355
- Expenses
- $328,365
- Assets
- $219,298
- Liabilities
- $142,308
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YAEL HALAAS (PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER)
- MICHELLE STRAVITZ (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELLE STRAVITZ (CEO): $112,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
AJMA was founded in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, when Jewish healthcare professionals across the country began experiencing antisemitism, exclusion, intimidation, and isolation in their workplaces, training programs, professional associations, and academic institutions. AJMA is building the institutional presence, professional standards, and systems required to support this community across the healthcare system.
What it reported doing in 2024
To combat antisemitism within institutions, ajma mobilizes affiliated members across a wide sphere of influence faculty, alumni, board chairs, and staff to utilize existing institutional processes to address these structural issues. To address issues within medical associations, ajma leverages its national voice representing thousands of jewish healthcare professionals and trainees to combat statements, resolutions, and stances at various medical associations that have been hijacked by protestor mentalities and false narratives. Ajma also works with local chapters and other jewish organizations to turn the current climate into an educational opportunity. We educate administrators and peers about the source, meaning, and dangers of antisemitism; how zionism is central to jewish identity; and how significantly israel contributes to medicine. Critically, we work to ensure antisemitism is considered on its own, without being socially weighed against anti-muslim and anti-arab biases. Ajma also seeks to support and protect individual victims of antisemitism - be they patients, professionals, or trainees, no matter their seniority or discipline. We advise on processes within institutions, and particularly what to do when the proper channels have been hijacked against jews. At some institutions, the administration is so explicitly hostile towards jews that legal avenues need to be considered from the beginning. Ajma helps those who have been victim to antisemitism find legal counsel, maintaining relationships with organizations and firms that offer pro bono or professional services to address antisemitic incidents.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.8%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 50.3%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 19%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 40.8% of revenue deployed · 50.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $165K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $112K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.