Encounter Programs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260593832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9293569294
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,780,630
- Expenses
- $3,017,268
- Assets
- $2,287,349
- Liabilities
- $115,098
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YONA SHEM-TOV (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- YONA SHEM-TOV (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $217,170 total reported compensation
- DANIEL LANGE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $178,790 total reported compensation
- SAMANTHA POHL (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER): $161,302 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Encounter is an educational organization working toward informed, courageous, and resiliant american and israeli jewish communal leadership on the israeli-palestinian reality.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through our north america based continuing education programs, encounter convenes open, honest and uncensored discussion on issues at the heart of the israeli-palestinian reality. Our continuing education programming offers jewish leaders opportunities for ongoing learning through encounters with palestinians and through leaders on the reality. Tailored programming for past participants provides a platform to leverage their membership in encounter's wider community, accessing a network of thoughtful peers to serve as partners and exchanging best practices with colleagues.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 51
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -8.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.4% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.