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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM

EIN 23-7182582 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$15,949,858
Expenses 2024
$20,890,526

Program services were 90.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A115
Classification
1200
Street
545 5TH AVE RM 920

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE LIBERAL ARTS AND OBTAIN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE ISRAEL MUSEUM , OBTAIN GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AND MAKE GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ISRAEL MUSEUM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE LIBERAL ARTS AND OBTAIN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, OBTAIN GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AND MAKE GRANTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ISRAEL MUSEUM.

  • THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM SUPPORTS APPROVED PROJECTS AT THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM. THE THREE MAIN AREAS OF SUPPORT ARE THE FINE ARTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE YOUTH WING. SUPPORT INCLUDES GIFTS OF ART, FUNDING FOR SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, AND FUNDING FOR PROGRAMMING ACROSS THE MUSEUM'S MANY DEPARTMENTS. PUBLIC PROGRAMS INCLUDE THINGS RANGING FROM THE MUSEUM'S ANNUAL KITE FLYING FESTIVAL TO MUSIC IN THE GALLERIES OR SCULPTURE GARDEN. YOUTH WING PROGRAMS INCLUDE A TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM, A HIGH SCHOOL MATRICULATION PROGRAM, PROGRAMS BRINGING JEWISH AND ARAB YOUTH TOGETHER, PROGRAMS FOR AT RISK TEENS, PROGRAMS FOR FAMILIES WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND MUCH MORE. ANNUAL SUPPORT IS ALSO PROVIDED TO SUBSIDIZE MUSEUM ADMISSION FOR STUDENTS AND SOLDIERS. ADDITIONALLY, SINCE OCTOBER 2023 PROGRAM SUPPORT HAS INCLUDED OUTREACH ART PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED ISRAELIS AND THOSE SUFFERING FROM PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA AS A RESULT OF THE WAR.

    Expenses $18,950,639 · Grants $18,438,190

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jill Bernstein

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Stacey Bronfman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Hope Warschaw

    FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Geri Pollack

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Barbara Rothschild

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William Ehrlich

    CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMIT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Richard S Lane

    ASSISTANT TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Phyllis Mack

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Mark

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Renee Belfer

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judy Steinhardt

    CO-CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Stephen S Lash

    CO-CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF DIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Maureen Cogan

    CO-CHAIRMAN, INTERNATIONAL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6
  • Barbara Lane

    HONORARY PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ninah Lynne

    HONORARY PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Ann Ames

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Marc Benda

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Jay Bernstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Bernstein Resigned 0524

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Anthony Mendel Beyer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rita Mayo Bronfman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ellen H Block

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Iris Cantor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Steven Chernys

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Chetrit

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $15,949,858
    Expenses
    $20,890,526
    Contributions
    $11,837,120
    Grants paid
    $18,438,190
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $13,075,007
    Expenses
    $31,002,474
    Contributions
    $10,432,330
    Grants paid
    $28,429,456
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,386,192
    Expenses
    $50,823,753
    Contributions
    $13,068,110
    Grants paid
    $48,414,924

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $22,216,217
    Expenses
    $28,412,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,139,805
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,527,557
    Expenses
    $15,856,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $202,840,813
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,174,055
    Expenses
    $14,144,688
    Assets (EOY)
    $201,261,320
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,782,626
    Expenses
    $19,151,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,713,742
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,484,776
    Expenses
    $55,008,657
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,785,502
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,150,758
    Expenses
    $17,264,366
    Assets (EOY)
    $211,414,081
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,611,563
    Expenses
    $19,528,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,309,436
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,096,038
    Expenses
    $17,995,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $192,689,387
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,966,905
    Expenses
    $79,490,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,752,096
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $20,882,703
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,913,357

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.