B'nai B'rith International
Legal name: B Nai B Rith
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530179971
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 800-573-9057
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,555,421
- Expenses
- $5,999,013
- Assets
- $14,513,509
- Liabilities
- $4,177,918
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL S MARIASCHIN (CEO)
- SHARON BENDER (VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNIC)
- ROBERT SPITZER (PRESIDENT)
- DAN TARTAKOVSKI (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
- JACOBO WOLKOWICZ (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
- MILLIE MAGID (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL S MARIASCHIN (CEO): $443,276 total reported compensation
- MARK OLSHAN (AEVP): $222,100 total reported compensation
- EDYTA SZEMIEL (CONTROLLER): $141,614 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
B’nai B’rith International, founded in 1843, is the world’s leading Jewish organization with an unbroken legacy of service and impact—strengthening global Jewish life, combating anti-Semitism, standing with the State of Israel, and advancing dignity, security and human rights for all through public diplomacy, community engagement, education, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
Senior services and housing: the center for senior services (css), bbi advocates on behalf of older persons on a variety of topics of concern to this ever-growing group of americans including, but certainly not limited to; aging-in-place, healthcare, social security, transportation, income protection and "healthy" aging. Through a national network of 38 b'naih b'rith-sponsered hud-assisted apartment buildings, the organization provides safe, supportive, quality housing to over 5,000 low-income seniors throughout the united states, without regard to race, religion or national origin. B'nai b'rith is the largest national jewish sponsor of subsidized housing in the country. The center also provides regular services, ongoing training and programs to individual board members, management professionals and residents in order to improve the overall management and administration of this national housing network. Whenever possible, bbi works with local b'nai b'rith community groups to investigate, develop and expand the range of affordable housing programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 74.3%; rating input score 74; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.9%; rating input score 97; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 32 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $443K · 39 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $228K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 37 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
- 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.