Totals
- Total revenue
- $316,052
- Total expenses
- $487,795
- Contributions and grants received
- $316,052
- Grants paid
- $100,296
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $34,150
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $87,633
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- -$53,483
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $369,618
- Management and general expenses
- $45,977
- Fundraising expenses
- $72,200
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $369,618
Program services were 75.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
-
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$316,052
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $83,430 · program services $83,430
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $16,866 · program services $16,866
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $175,000 · program services $140,000 · management and general $8,750 · fundraising $26,250
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $27,907 · program services $22,326 · management and general $1,395 · fundraising $4,186
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $12,718 · program services $10,174 · management and general $636 · fundraising $1,908
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11a · Fees: management
total $36,000 · program services $28,800 · management and general $3,600 · fundraising $3,600
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $13,601 · management and general $13,601
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $36,000 · fundraising $36,000
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24a · Other expenses: The Witness Fellowship Progr
total $74,195 · program services $58,499 · management and general $15,476 · fundraising $220
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24b · Other expenses: Public Learning Programs
total $12,078 · program services $9,523 · management and general $2,519 · fundraising $36
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $72,130 · end of year $7,921
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $54,950 · end of year $26,229
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $8,821 · end of year $87,633
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $33,259 · end of year -$97,483
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $85,000 · end of year $44,000
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
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Witness Toolkit Website and Memory Circles: We continued to develop our new website to serve as a digital repository for our content, so that our community of Fellows, alumni, advisors, and program partners can access the texts and tools we have developed over the past several years. We designed the site to serve as well for others seeking accessible, engaging, and effective tools and resources for conversations about contemporary issues, as we explore new public programs. We also piloted the Memory Circles program in three initial small groups exploring moral education through study, discussion, and practice, inspired and informed by Professor Wiesel.
Expenses $172,500
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The Witness Fellowship:The Witness Fellowship trains the next generation of emerging leaders in the approach of Nobel laureate, author, and human rights activist Elie Wiesel. In 2024 we grew our community of Fellows from 28 to 38, supported new connections between and among cohorts, and supported each Fellow to develop a project to translate what theyve learned into impact in their communities. We held our annual in-person retreat in August, where we deepened our work together with a combination of study, practices, discussion, and storytelling. We also offered all-cohort programs special guest speakers, and began to offer some alumni key contract professional roles to support our work
Expenses $152,643
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All other programs and initiatives.
Expenses $44,475
As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Listed in Part VII
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Ariel Burger
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $192,859
- From this org
- $106,616
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $86,243
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us · ignoring case and punctuation
- Base
- $106,616
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported + $86,243 related
- Filer's total
- $106,616 + $86,243 related
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Elisha Wiesel
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Todd Sukol
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
None.
Answered no
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202513179349302381
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