Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 132869041
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 212.983.4800
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Intergroup, Race Relations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,603,556
- Expenses
- $13,485,796
- Assets
- $10,644,931
- Liabilities
- $2,932,246
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
78 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENNETT GOLUB (PRESIDENT)
- JOSH MOSKOWITZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SANFORD ANTIGNAS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARK TREYGER (CEO)
- MITCHELL SILBER (CEO - COMMUNITY SECURITY INITIATIVE)
Highest reported compensation
- MITCHELL SILBER (CEO - COMMUNITY SECURITY INITIATIVE): $490,878 total reported compensation
- MARC WOLF (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $372,294 total reported compensation
- NORMAN GILBOORD (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $290,847 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JCRC-NY builds relationships to advance the values, interests, and security of the Jewish community and to create a more interconnected New York for all. How do we build bridges and coalitions with other communities? JCRC-NY functions throughout the metropolitan area at the local community level encouraging and implementing programs that create coalitions with other ethnic and religious communities to solve issues that are of common concern. These coalitions aim to bring together communities and promote understanding to ensure culturally competent solutions to problems. We have initiated local community coalitions focusing on health services, nonprofit operations and governance, and the special needs of the aging, émigrés, and youth. These working partnerships in turn foster better communication, mutual respect and help unify diverse communit.
What it reported doing in 2024
The community security initiative (csi) was established in 2019 by uja-federation of New York and jcrc-ny. This program serves to protect and enhance the security for jewish communities and institutions in New York state, covering areas all the way from montauk to albany. The greater New York city metro area jewish community is home to approximately 1.7 million jews, the largest jewish population outside israel, and 2,500 jewish institutions, including synagogues, schools, and camps. Csi enhances security in 7 primary ways: (1) coordinating with local law enforcement to protect jewish institutions; (2) tracking threats to the community via threat intelligence analysts; (3) responding to antisemitic incidents in our region; (4) enhancing the physical security of every jewish institution in the region; (5) providing synagogues, schools, jewish community centers, and camp staff with active threat shooter and other training; (6) providing physical security assessments to enable applications for federal and state grants; and (7) supplying a real time communications system that links the jewish institutions in our region as part of an emergency communications system.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 70 of 70 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $491K · 78 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $614K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.