Zioness Movement Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824360952
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2014778090
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,871,975
- Expenses
- $2,064,026
- Assets
- $1,145,187
- Liabilities
- $883,912
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA BERMAN (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JARROD BERNSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- AMANDA BERMAN (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $261,328 total reported compensation
- JOSH STEINBERG (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $158,393 total reported compensation
- NICHOLAS CANFIELD (VP OF ORGANIZING): $150,814 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a political home for american jews who are both progressive and zionist
What it reported doing in 2024
Online education - as a grassroots organization with a distributed membership model, online education remains a cornerstone of zioness programmatic strategy. In addition to leveraging their website, learning management system, and platforms like zoom, zioness has expanded its focus to include robust training series designed to equip members with the skills needed to confidently engage in the field. These trainings prepare leaders to have constructive, values-driven conversations, stand proudly as zionists in progressive spaces, and build meaningful partnerships rooted in mutual respect and shared goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $261K · 13 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $240K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.