The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

Legal name: The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133807016
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
West Orange, NJ, United States
Phone
973.736.1800
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,938,851
Expenses
$2,072,024
Assets
$14,668,918
Liabilities
$73,680

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STANLEE JOYCE STAHL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • STANLEE JOYCE STAHL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $346,028 total reported compensation
  • DARA S ZADIKOW (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $162,904 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

In 1986, Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis z l established The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) to fulfill the traditional Jewish commitment to _hakarat hatov_ (recognition of goodness) by assisting "Righteous Gentiles"—non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and later became reluctant to ask for help—and to support Holocaust teacher education for middle and high school educators addressing historical and contemporary antisemitism.

What it reported doing in 2025

The jfr is committed to teaching the history of the holocaust, to addressing antisemitism, and to preserving the legacy of righteous gentiles. The jfr's national holocaust teacher education program is comprised of four key components: 1) jfr published educational materials; 2) the alfred lerner fellowship program; 3) holocaust centers of excellence program; and 4) educational seminars, institutes, and workshops for teachers and students. The jfr's national teacher training program works with 13 recognized holocaust centers across the united states. These holocaust centers comprise the jfr's holocaust centers of excellence program. The jfr continued to provide support to 13 holocaust centers located across the united states and to their teachers. The jfr continues to support its more than 700 alfred lerner fellows from the united states, poland, croatia, hungary, and lithuania as well as meeting the needs of individual educators and schools across the united states requesting information about the holocaust and how to teach this complex subject in the classroom. In 2024 the jfr launched it's new online holocaust program, "how was it possible? A holocaust curriculum for and by teachers" tm. In 2025, the jfr continued to introduce it's new online holocaust program, "how was it possible? A holocaust curriculum for and by teachers".

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 59% for direct work, and 41% for 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
    • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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: 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: 29.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.08; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $346K · 8 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $146K reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.