Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

What it reported doing in 2024

Tanenbaum's education program cultivates behaviors of respect for difference-including religious difference-in students and supports their social and emotional growth through partnerships with educational institutions. We equip teachers and education professionals with innovative resources, including curricula, lesson plans, and holiday planning guides, to help them celebrate diversity in all its forms within the classroom. We also provide training in our curricula and pedagogy through webinars, customized sessions, and train-the-trainer programs.(continued on schedule o)during the 2024-2025 school year, we trained approximately 300 teachers in the New York city public school system and 250 faculty, staff, and community members at a New York city independent school. In february 2025 the education program concluded a 3-year consulting collaboration with children's museum houston. Members of the 2024-2025 tanenbaum education advisory board work with over 1,000 students nationwide, including in New York city, raleigh, North Carolina; seattle, Washington; atlanta, Georgia; hudson, Ohio; and newton, New Jersey.the workplace program engages business leaders, global employers, managers, and dei and human resources professionals to counter harassment and discrimination and build religiously inclusive workplaces. Through trainings and materials on how to effectively work with a global and increasingly religiously diverse workforce and customer base, companies improve the bottom line and become more productive and inclusive environments. In 2024, we hosted the 8th annual summit on may 8th, 2024 with 252 total attendees (98 in-person, 154 online) and annual executive-level symposium on october 29th, 2024 with 83 total (47 in-person, 36 virtual). The workplace team and leadership conducted over 70 trainings reaching over 11,000 people.the health care program builds health care providers' capacity for offering religiously competent health care and thereby preventing disparities in treatment. Tanenbaum invests in the future of health care with targeted trainings, e-learning, and by disseminating curriculum to medical schools, residency programs, and nursing schools to prepare the next generation of medical providers for an increasingly religiously diverse patient population. In 2024, our reach and our membership program continued to grow. We released health care's first e-learning module, lgbtq+ youth health: the role of religion. We presented 18 trainings to three hospital centers and one non-profit health insurance company. The peacebuilding program identifies and coordinates a network of religiously motivated peacemakers worldwide, who support and cooperate with each other to counter violence and war. Tanenbaum also studies and documents their work through publications so that their specialized techniques can be shared and replicated by others. This year, we executed the fully funded peacemakers in action working retreat 2024, sept. 18-24 at rose castle in the united kingdom. Thirteen peacemakers in action (pia) attended. The bbc recorded and aired a radio segment featuring five pia. Over the long-term, this program is advancing the recognition and institutionalization of the vocation of religious peacemaking. Interreligious affairs informs our programs (workplace, health care, education, and peacebuilding) by furthering the work of our namesake, rabbi marc h. Tanenbaum to build a safer, more equitable world for people of all belief systems. Today, rabbi tanenbaum's longtime scholarly partner, dr. Judith banki continues the research, analysis, and dialogue that was such an important part of rabbi tanenbaum's legacy.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 67.3%; rating input score 67
• Program expense ratio: 73.1%; rating input score 73
• Fundraising efficiency: $2.89 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: 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: 9.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings