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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,899,082
Total expenses
$1,901,230
Contributions and grants received
$2,863,674
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$35,000
Investment income
$408
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$2,103,308
Total liabilities, end of year
$79,188
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,024,120
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,037,680
Management and general expenses
$731,823
Fundraising expenses
$131,727
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,037,680

Program services were 54.6% 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.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $296,290

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,567,384

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MEETINGS

    total $35,000 · related or exempt $35,000

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $408 · excluded $408

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $541,229 · program services $305,588 · management and general $193,689 · fundraising $41,952

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $581,094 · program services $328,098 · management and general $207,955 · fundraising $45,041

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $18,778 · program services $10,602 · management and general $6,720 · fundraising $1,456

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $98,728 · program services $55,744 · management and general $35,332 · fundraising $7,652

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $78,115 · program services $44,105 · management and general $27,955 · fundraising $6,055

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $35,700 · management and general $35,700

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $323,024 · program services $138,405 · management and general $184,619

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $3,119 · program services $1,761 · management and general $1,116 · fundraising $242

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $7,592 · management and general $7,592

  • 17 · Travel

    total $116,359 · program services $63,997 · management and general $23,272 · fundraising $29,090

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $67,335 · program services $67,335

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,475 · program services $833 · management and general $528 · fundraising $114

  • 24a · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $16,711 · program services $12,533 · management and general $4,178

  • 24b · Other expenses: MEMBERSHIP DUES AND SUB

    total $10,356 · program services $7,767 · management and general $2,589

  • 24c · Other expenses: COMMUNICATIONS

    total $1,615 · program services $912 · management and general $578 · fundraising $125

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $2,140,125 · end of year $2,014,162

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $4 · end of year $85,860

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $1,500 · end of year $1,500

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $17,164

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $15,378

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $3,261 · end of year $1,786

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $62,809 · end of year $74,188

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $5,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $1,055,813 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $889,010 · end of year $1,818,967

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $137,258 · end of year $205,153

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MISSION OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS (JCPA) IS TO STRENGTHEN AND LEVERAGE THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS NETWORK ACROSS THE NATION TO CHAMPION A JUST, DEMOCRATIC AND PLURALISTIC SOCIETY AND ADVANCE THE RIGHT OF FULL INCLUSION OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY, INCLUDING JEWS, FREE OF DISCRIMINATION HATE AND PREJUDICE.INSPIRED BY JEWISH VALUES OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW AND AN ABIDING COMMITMENT TO VIBRANT AND SECURE JEWISH COMMUNITIES HERE, ISRAEL AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, JCPA CONVENES AND CATALYZES ITS NETWORK TO WORK WITH PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND BUILD DEEP RELATIONS AND ENGAGE IN ADVOCACY COALITIONS BASED ON SHARED GOALS WITH OTHER CIVIC, RACIAL, ETHNIC AND FAITH-BASED LEADERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

JCPA CONVENES AND MOBILIZES PARTNERS AND COALITIONS ACROSS COMMUNITIES TO COUNTER ANTISEMITISM AND BROADER HATE AND EXTREMISM, PROTECT DEMOCRACY, AND ADVANCE OUR SHARED VALUES RECOGNIZING THAT JEWISH SAFETY AND INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED.

  • STRATEGIC COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICES FOCUSED ON STRENGTHENING THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS NETWORK THROUGH DEDICATED SUPPORT FOR JCRC PROFESSIONALS AND LEADERS, AS WELL AS OTHER KEY LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNAL PARTNERS. THIS INCLUDES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TOOLKITS AND OTHER SHARING OF BEST PRACTICES; ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES; CONVENINGS ON SHARED CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES; EFFORTS TO DIVERSIFY THE FIELD AND ITS PARTNERS; AND A FOCUS ON IDENTIFYING AND SCALING LOCAL SUCCESSES.ISSUES-BASED ADVOCACY THROUGH JCPA'S TWO ACTION NETWORKS FOCUSED ON PROTECTING DEMOCRACY AND COUNTERING HATE & BIGOTRY, AS WELL AS THROUGH OTHER CHANNELS. JCPA ADVANCES CROSS-COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND KEY ADVOCACY PRIORITIES ON THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS BY MOBILIZING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND OUR PARTNERS ROOTED IN THE RECOGNITION THAT COUNTERING ANTISEMITISM IS INHERENT TO PROTECTING DEMOCRACY, AND PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IS INHERENT TO JEWISH SAFETY.PUBLIC AFFAIRS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND TREND ANALYSIS PROVIDING RESEARCH-DRIVEN MESSAGE GUIDANCE AND OTHER TOOLS TO JCRCS AND OTHER PARTNERS ON PRIORITY ISSUES, INCLUDING ON ANTISEMITISM AND THE INEXTRICABLE LINK BETWEEN JEWISH SAFETY, THE SAFETY OF ALL COMMUNITIES, AND OUR DEMOCRACY.

    Expenses $1,037,680 · Revenue $35,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • DAVID STEIRMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAREN KASNER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUSAN ABRAVANEL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LESLIE DANNIN ROSENTHAL

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • LESLIE KIRBY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MAGDA SCHALER-HAYNES

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LESLIE ANDERSON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID BOHM

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STACY BURDETT

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ARLENE FICKLER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBORAH GOLDMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TYLER GREGORY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JORDANA HORN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KIYOMI KOWALSKI

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHAWN LANDRES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBORAH PRICE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COREY SHAPIRO

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUDY SMITH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WALTER SPIEGAL

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRUCE TURNBULL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DANIEL GOLDWIN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETSEY EPSTEIN

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $149,212
    From this org
    $130,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,212
    Hours/week
    40

  • AMY SPITALNICK

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $304,702
    From this org
    $275,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,702
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $275,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,250
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,452
    Filer's total
    $304,702

  • RORI PICKER NEISS

    SVP

    Total calculated
    $191,751
    From this org
    $171,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,551
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,200
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,136
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,415
    Filer's total
    $191,751

  • KAREN ELAM

    FORMER COO

    Total calculated
    $202,458
    From this org
    $160,641
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,817
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,641
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,819
    Nontaxable benefits
    $36,998
    Filer's total
    $202,458

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

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 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
14 January 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202600149349301515

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