Center for Israel Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260220636
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4043956851
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $854,275
- Expenses
- $829,211
- Assets
- $482,080
- Liabilities
- $25,390
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- KENNETH STEIN (founding pres.): $184,999 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Center has four primary goals:(1) Promote the ongoing concept that Israels historical presence is integral and vital to modern Jewish and non-Jewish identities. (2)Provide students, educators, and life-long learners with materials and trustworthy sources to engage with others about modern Israel.(3)Engage students and adults in broadening their Israel literacy by embracing its origins through the lens of Jewish history, state-seeking, state-making, and state-keeping. (4)Build digital resources through our robust website, conduct in-person consultations and workshops, webinars and on-line learning opportunities.Target Audiences: Our high-touch focus is on teens, college students, summer camp staff, Jewish and non-Jewish educators and clergy, and the media. Through our website we serve everyone who is interested in learning more about modern Israel.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public education adults, teens, schoolteachers, and clergy through digital, online and in person platforms; constantly assembling archives and analyses on history, politics, and culture of Modern Israel and the Modern Middle East, providing English and Spanish materials, underpinned by a website.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $691K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $185K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.