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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM

EIN 13-1790719 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2023
$288,511,110
Expenses 2023
$89,133,758

Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q113
Classification
1000
Street
20 W 36TH ST STE 1100

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 · 2023

Mission

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM IS THE SOLE AUTHORIZED FUNDRAISING AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTING THE LIFE SAVING EFFORTS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM (MDA) IN ISRAEL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORTS THE LIFE-SAVING EFFORTS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM IN ISRAEL THROUGH FUNDRAISING & ADVOCACY.

  • (SEE SCHEDULE O)MAGEN DAVID ADOM PLAYS FOUR CRITICAL ROLES AS ISRAEL'S NATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENT, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION TASKED WITH THE CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE NATION'S EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEM. IT'S FIRST AND MOST EXPANSIVE ROLE IS AS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE, PROVIDING PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES TO ISRAEL'S OVER 10 MILLION CITIZENS, AND THE 2 MILLION OR MORE TOURISTS WHO VISIT EACH YEAR. IN THIS PROGRAM, AFMDA PROVIDED 217 BASIC LIFE SUPPORT AMBULANCES, 96 MOBILE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AMBULANCES, 121 FIRST RESPONDER MOTORCYCLES, 1 COMMAND AND CONTROL VEHICLE, AND 5 BLOODMOBILE BEDS THAT ARE SPECIALLY EQUIPPED TO SPEED THROUGH TRAFFIC TO ARRIVE AT THE SCENE OF AN ILLNESS OR INCIDENT BEFORE AN AMBULANCE. IN ADDITION, AFMDA PROVIDED THOUSANDS OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT UNITS, INCLUDING MONITORS, COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, DEFIBRILLATORS AND TRAINING EQUIPMENT. AFMDA ALSO FUNDED THE TRAINING OF EMTS AND PARAMEDICS. THE SECOND CRITICAL RESPONSIBILITY WITH WHICH MDA IS TASKED IS THE TESTING, PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ISRAEL'S NATIONAL BLOOD SUPPLY. 2022 SAW THE COMPLETION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD'S FIRST UNDERGROUND AND SHIELDED BLOOD BANK, FUNDED BY AFMDA AND FOR WHICH CONSTRUCTION BEGAN IN 2017. THIS NEW FACILITY WILL HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PROCESS MORE THAN 500,000 UNITS OF BLOOD ANNUALLY AND WILL PROTECT THE BLOOD SUPPLY IN CASE OF A TERRORIST ATTACK, WAR OR EARTHQUAKE. AFMDA ALSO DONATED ONE BLOOD MOBILE THAT IS USED IN BLOOD DRIVES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. MDA IS THE AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL MEDICAL OPERATIONS IN THE EVENT OF A MASS CASUALTY EVENT, WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS OF THE COUNTRY. AFMDA PROVIDES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN MEDICAL SUPPLIES USED DAILY BY THE EMS DIVISION AND DEPLOYED DURING MASS CASUALTY DRILLS.ISRAEL'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) IS MAGEN DAVID ADOM, AND IN THAT ROLE, MDA PARTICIPATES IN INTERNATIONAL RESCUE MISSIONS AND OPERATIONS SANCTIONED BY THE ICRC. IN 2023, MDA WAS ASKED TO PROVIDE LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE, AND MDA PARAMEDICS WERE STATIONED AT A FIELD HOSPITAL OUTSIDE LVIV, UKRAINE AND OPENED A FIELD CLINIC IN CHISINAU, MOLDOVA, TREATING PATIENTS FLEEING THE WAR. AFMDA FUNDED THREE ARMORED AMBULANCES TO REPLACE ARMORED AMBULANCES THAT MDA DONATED TO THE UKRAINIAN RED CROSS.THROUGH THEIR SUPPORT OF AFMDA, AMERICAN DONORS ARE PLAYING A TANGIBLE AND DRAMATIC ROLE IN SAVING LIVES IN ISRAEL.

    Expenses $78,420,643 · Grants $70,984,051

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MARK LEBOW

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DANIEL DOBIN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MICHAEL GOLDMAN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • GERSHON W TRIMPOL

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • BARRY FELDMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • NEIL FOX

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • ANN DESHE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANN LESSER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNETTA WELLER EPSTEIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANIEL SCHWARZWALDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DONNA FRIED CALCATERRA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRAEDA KOPMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HERBERT DONNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAQUELINE GOLDMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KENT SWIG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT PICOW

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RONIT NEUMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNA D CALCATERRA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVE DIAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALBERT KALIMIAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KURT SCWARTZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHERINE R REED

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $430,743
    From this org
    $364,834
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $65,909
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $364,834
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $46,109
    Filer's total
    $430,743

  • JAY CULANG THRU 062023

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $121,717
    From this org
    $99,039
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,678
    Hours/week
    35

  • TAMARA H KARU

    SE. DIR./NATL. DIR. OF ST. PHILAN.

    Total calculated
    $395,620
    From this org
    $344,222
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $51,398
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $344,222
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,800
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,598
    Filer's total
    $395,620

  • RICHARD ZELIN

    MIDWEST REGIONAL DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $252,956
    From this org
    $222,323
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,633
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $222,323
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,256
    Nontaxable benefits
    $17,377
    Filer's total
    $252,956

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. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $288,511,110
    Expenses
    $89,133,758
    Contributions
    $286,781,620
    Grants paid
    $70,984,051
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $49,099,260
    Expenses
    $47,613,816
    Contributions
    $48,859,835
    Grants paid
    $33,528,056

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
    $65,465,836
    Expenses
    $64,905,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,538,464

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $47,704,014
    Expenses
    $56,325,486
    Assets (EOY)
    $63,791,324

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,460,300
    Expenses
    $44,859,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,018,604

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,471,362
    Expenses
    $41,556,950
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,087,985

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $46,532,012
    Expenses
    $34,622,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,813,458

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $38,252,958
    Expenses
    $29,722,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,681,315

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,194,054
    Expenses
    $33,951,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $72,674,110

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $41,349,734
    Expenses
    $44,573,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,237,632

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,721,741
    Expenses
    $25,862,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,950,153

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $23,537,242
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,586,700

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

  • MAGEN DAVID ADOM

    HEALTHCARE SERVICES · IS

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.