Jewish Outreach International
Legal name: Jewish Outreach International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260542932
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Phone
- 7708807474
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $308,293
- Expenses
- $294,752
- Assets
- $39,823
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYRIL GORDON (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- CYRIL GORDON (Vice President): $80,959 total reported compensation
- STEVEN KAPLAN (Executive Direc): $60,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jewish Outreach International evangelizes and disciples Jewish people and others while equipping the body of Messiah to do the same. JEWISH OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL. In 2007, Steven's church encouraged him and helped him to start Jewish Outreach International. Steven recruited some of his supporters to serve on the board of directors of this new Jewish mission. In December 2007, the Internal Revenue Service recognized Jewish Outreach International as an official 501(c)(3) non-profit, and we began operating on January 1, 2008. In March 2009, Moishe Rosen, the founder of Jews for Jesus, joined the Board of Directors of Jewish Outreach International and endorsed Steven's ministry. In July 2009, Eddie and Lura Beckford, laborers in Arad, Israel, joined the staff of Jewish Outreach International. In October 2009, Jewish Outreach International began working wi.
What it reported doing in 2025
Christian mission outreach to the jewish community on an international scale.
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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $295K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.