The Jewish Majority
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994507079
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 7276230934
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,728
- Expenses
- $360,423
- Assets
- $50,410
- Liabilities
- $199,199
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN SCHULMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JONATHAN SCHULMAN (PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA RIESENBERG (TREASURER)
- JOSH KRAUSHAAR (SECRETARY)
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
The Jewish Majority conducts research and provides communal leaders with the resources, information and training to effectively educate the public about Jewish priorities. The Jewish Majority in the Press amNY. Most Jewish Mamdani voters support 2-state solution, fear rising antisemitism: poll JTA 40% of Jewish NYC voters rate Zohran Mamdani’s performance as mayor ‘poor,’ poll finds. Most American Jews do not support anti-Zionism, new poll reveals Times of Israel New research project aims to counter US Jewish activist groups that hold minority views.
What it reported doing in 2025
Generated media coverage to demonstrate widespread jewish cohesion on issues of communal security and antisemitism.
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 100% 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: 7
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
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: -103.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.95; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 97.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -53.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $274K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.