Jewish Funders Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232742482
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2127260177
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,940,855
- Expenses
- $18,757,767
- Assets
- $9,308,994
- Liabilities
- $2,535,161
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
41 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDRES SPOKOINY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- RABBI REBECCA SIRBU (EXCECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- DEENA FUCHS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MICAH)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDRES SPOKOINY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $627,806 total reported compensation
- JOEL PRAGER (SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR, JFN CONSULTING): $402,877 total reported compensation
- DEENA FUCHS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MICAH): $303,308 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jewish Funders Network works with Jewish funders, at the individual and collective levels, to improve the quality of their giving and maximize their impact as they make the change they want to see in the world. _ We are a pluralistic organization that values the richness of diversity and sees the opportunities for innovation and learning from conflict and divergent views. We promote shared inquiry, education, and informed action. _Partnership (Areyvut) _ We do not advocate any particular funding cause, but act as an honest broker, striving to help donors connect with each other and root their giving in Jewish traditions, ethics and values. With humility, we facilitate the efforts of funders to be more effective, and to think critically about the possibilities for—and implications of—their philanthropy. JFN is not a grantmaking organization and does not fund projects or individuals...
What it reported doing in 2024
Conferencethe jfn international conference is an extraordinary opportunity for funders from around the jewish world to strengthen personal connections and build partnerships. Through top-level presenters, innovative learning experiences, networking opportunities, site visits, and big-picture thinking on the jewish future, the conference is a unique experience for hundreds of jewish philanthropists and foundation professionals to leverage the power of jfn's network to effect meaningful and impactful change across the globe.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $38.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 64.5%; rating input score 64; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: -25.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 36 of 36 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $628K · 41 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $510K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 35 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 33 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 29 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.