The Donors Fund
Legal name: Donors Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474844275
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Lakewood, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 1844.666.0808
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $663,839,363
- Expenses
- $553,232,388
- Assets
- $336,596,724
- Liabilities
- $2,210,430
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARYEH LUSS (ACTING CEO)
- AHRON SCHLESINGER (FORMER CEO)
- SHALOM GLUCK (President)
Highest reported compensation
- ARYEH LUSS (ACTING CEO): $192,708 total reported compensation
- AHRON SCHLESINGER (FORMER CEO): $188,190 total reported compensation
- YAKOV TRAVIS (COO): $171,667 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
You do the giving, we do the everything else. The Donor's Fund is on a mission to return the autonomy, ease, joy and fulfillment of direct giving. Accountable to our donors, in every cent of the word Part of our mission to set you Free to giveTM includes. We recognized early on that despite donors' best intentions, charity wasn't a given: transactional limitations, red tape, and administrative hassle severely impacted the giving experience. To help donors break free and make giving more rewarding, our team of philanthropic and finance executives created **the definitive "giving company", offering the latest in giving technologies, charitable insights, DAF accounts, and more. Your Impact.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grants to organizations in accordance with the organizations primary exempt purpose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 98.9%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $3,801.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 13th 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: 16.7%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 98.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $546.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $193K · 6 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.