Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation
Legal name: The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133857441
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8453595551
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Promotion of International Understanding
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $761,362
- Expenses
- $914,115
- Assets
- $1,014,150
- Liabilities
- $23,030
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- SIMON BERGSON (CHAIRMAN)
- DANIEL M EISENSTADT (DIRECTOR)
- DAVID G MARWELL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation (AJCF) is an anti-hatred organization using education to create change in a world where hate is on the rise. Our mission is to preserve the rich Jewish life of Oświęcim before 98% of its Jewish population was obliterated by hate and confront all modern hatred head-on through our world-class educational programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The auschwitz jewish center foundation inc. (the foundation) primary purpose is to support the organization, development, construction, maintenance and operation of a museum and cultural center located in oswiecim, poland.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 80% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 49th 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: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -20.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $629K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $134K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.