Jewish Women International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 526040461
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2028571300
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,974,023
- Expenses
- $2,843,001
- Assets
- $3,640,722
- Liabilities
- $346,655
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Meredith Jacobs (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Meredith Jacobs (Chief Executive Officer): $181,472 total reported compensation
- Deborah Rosenbloom (VP of Programs): $143,607 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Schedule O.
What it reported doing in 2024
JWIs National center on domestic and sexual violence in the Jewish community houses the organizations work to end gender-based violence. Through the center, JWI trains those who work in the domestic violence field through JWIs collaborative of Jewish domestic violence programs and the national alliance to end domestic abuse. Through initiatives like here for you and the Jewish communal response teams, JWI brings trauma-informed training to Jewish organizations in order to better support survivors and their children. JWI builds childrens libraries in domestic violence shelters through the national library initiative. JWI staff conducts research, including the 2022 national needs. Assessment of Jewish domestic violence survivors and programs. The organization convenes the clergy task force to end domestic abuse in the Jewish community, the interfaith coalition to end domestic and sexual violence, and the Jewish gun violence prevention roundtable. JWIs advocacy team works for systemic change through legislation that supports and protects survivors. And, as part of JWIs efforts to change the culture and end the cycle of violence, it offers healthy relationship and healthy masculinity workshops to fraternity and sorority students on college campuses nationwide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 62.7%; rating input score 63; 31st 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; 63rd 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: -44%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $181K · 23 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $131K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.