Restore the American Dream Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994572002
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035589063
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,205
- Expenses
- $136,826
- Assets
- $5,922
- Liabilities
- $7,518
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jacob William Roth (Chairman and CEO)
People named in this filing
- Jacob William Roth (Chairman and CEO)
- Kurt Schlichter (Director)
- Justin Turner North (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
RAD's mission is to advance American values and civil rights by supporting and participating in relevant legal causes, impact litigation, educational programs, and public advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Developed the Magen Project to defend Jewish students and employees targeted by antisemitism and anti-Israeli bigotry in schools, businesses, labor unions, and the government. The Magen Project participated in litigation including against American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), the City University of New York, and the New School for anti-semitic activity. The Project also participated in settling an EEOC Claim against Columbia University for its failure to protect a professor against death threats from anit-semitic activists.
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 95% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -24.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.27; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.5% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.