Met Council

Legal name: Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
132738818
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New York, NY, US
Phone
212-453-9500
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$42,911,421
Expenses
$38,768,857
Assets
$89,964,839
Liabilities
$56,042,725

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

34 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BARRY BERGMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BENJAMIN TISCH (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • JOSEPH S ALLERHAND ESQ (CO-PRESIDENT)
  • STACY B SCHEINBERG (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID GREENFIELD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID GREENFIELD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $689,824 total reported compensation
  • BRIAN TREGERMAN (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $419,680 total reported compensation
  • PHILIP KIBEL (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $339,035 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Met Council is America’s largest Jewish non-profit organization dedicated to fighting poverty. We run the largest kosher food network in America. We serve all who are hungry while specializing in the provision of emergency food that meets the cultural and religious dietary needs of food insecure kosher- and halal-observant households. Our digital food pantry, Market by Met Council, is taught as a Harvard Business School case study in nonprofit innovation. In recent years, we have dramatically expanded our services to meet the needs of our clients, with our food program alone currently serving more than 205,000 people each month through our emergency food network of over 200 pantries. Our Mission.

What it reported doing in 2024

The emergency food program helps families struggling to feed their children, new immigrants with little income, or frail elderly people without nutritious food, met council's kosher food program meets the needs of all who are hungry. Providing a holistic care program of food packages and emergency food vouchers, met council is meeting the complex needs of struggling new yorkers. All food provided is kosher, making met council a unique provider for the needy jewish population. At the same time, all nutritional resources are available to anyone in need, whether they keep kosher or not, regardless if they are jewish or not. For example, met council supplied over 30 halal food pantries with halal certified food for mostly immigrant clients across New York.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 56% for direct work, and 44% for grants.
  • 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $21.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.32; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $30.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $690K · 34 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $874K reported
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.