American Zionist Movement

Overview

Mission

The mission of the American Zionist Movement (AZM) is to bring the American Jewish community closer to Zionism. The American Zionist Movement (AZM), including 28 national Jewish organizations, represents American Zionists in the World Zionist Organization and works across a broad ideological, political and religious spectrum linking the American Jewish community together in support of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish People. The American Zionist Movement is a coalition of groups and individuals committed to Zionism: the idea that the Jewish people is one people with a shared history, values and language. AZM is the American affiliate of the World Zionist Organization, the Zionist Federation in the United States. Mission Statement.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 75
• Transparency & Controls: 44
• Accountability: 74
• Sustainability: 55
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
• Where the money goes: 64.9% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 170 of 170 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 289 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 24 of 26 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
• Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
• 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.

• Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.