Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474404976
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122301283
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Leadership Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $874,000
- Expenses
- $927,162
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
To stimulate informed discussion of diverse views and to nurture ethical leadership on issues of significance for a fair, productive and harmonious society.
The Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership is a Canadian nonprofit that fosters ethical leadership and informed dialogue on critical societal issues. Founded in memory of Sheldon Chumir, the foundation convenes international experts and partners to address challenges such as technology, productivity, and income distribution, as well as the role of art in society. Through programs like the Chumir Global Dialogue and collaborations with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, it works to promote a fair, productive, and harmonious society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The foundation carried out 100% of its reported charitable disbursements directly.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and the filing does not identify all grant recipients.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 0
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- What they fund: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency: Grant recipient disclosure scored 0/100.
- Review — Compliance: Foundation activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.