JewishGen
Legal name: Jewish Gen Inc C/o Museum of Jewish Heritage
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760493072
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 646.437.4202
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $922,070
- Expenses
- $503,252
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACK KLIGER (PRESIDENT & CEO OF MJH)
Highest reported compensation
- JACK KLIGER (PRESIDENT & CEO OF MJH): $374,633 total reported compensation
- AVRAHAM Z GROLL (ED OF JEWISH GEN): $210,566 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve our Jewish family history and heritage for future generations. But that does not happen by itself. JewishGen has become the world class organization it is, because of the incredible help of nearly **1000 volunteers,** who come to us from a variety of different backgrounds, circumstances and experiences – but who all believe in our mission, understand the importance of our work, and in the legacy that we are preserving. | | JewishGen Home Page | Subscribe to our newsletter. Award-winning resources such as the Discussion Group, Family Finder, and ViewMate, are relied upon by thousands each day. In addition, JewishGen's extensive informational, educational and historical offerings, such as the Jewish Communities Database, Yizkor Book translations, InfoFiles, and KehilaLinks, provide critical insights, first-hand accounts, and context about Jewish communal and familial life...
What it reported doing in 2023
Jewishgen serves as the global home for jewish genealogy. Featuring unparalleled access to millions of records, it offers unique search tools, historical and contextual information about the lives of our ancestor, educational classes and initiatives, and opportunities for researchers to connect with others who share similar interests. Continued in schedule o.
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
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 44
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.8%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 44%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 42.8% of revenue deployed · 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $394K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $375K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.