Incubator for Emerging Jewish Initiatives Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831432599
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Chevy Chase, MD, United States
- Phone
- (301) 660-5222
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,671,613
- Expenses
- $1,495,456
- Assets
- $288,159
- Liabilities
- $17,995
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TODD J SUKOL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TODD J SUKOL (PRESIDENT): $401,812 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We envision a Jewish community where Jewish innovators have the robust encouragement and support to have a sustained and powerful impact on Jewish life. And we have made it our Mission **To empower individuals and organizations developing substantive, innovative Jewish engagement or educational initiatives to succeed. Mission, Vision & Values We’ve launched the Incubator for Emerging Jewish Initiatives because . .
What it reported doing in 2024
Other: development of new creative programs and initiatives related to jewish education and jewish communal engagment. During 2024, this included two new initiatives. First, the collective threat response initiative, a set of charitable programs and activities with a mission to provide sustainable and effective security resources for the jewish community. Second, the mastering life book project, a set of charitable programs and activities with the mission to engage and empower the jewish community to connect to their identity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $402K · 5 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $985K reported
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.