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BALTIMORE JEWISH COUNCIL INC

EIN 52-1912836 BALTIMORE, MD

Revenue 2024
$1,375,567
Expenses 2024
$1,495,268

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B80
Classification
1000
Street
5750 PARK HEIGHTS AVE

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

TO FOSTER COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING WITH ETHNIC, RACIAL, AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS ACROSS MARYLAND, ADVOCATE AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC RESOURCES ON ISSUES OF CONCERN TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, AND THROUGH EDUCATION AND ACTION, PROMOTE STRONG SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE AT HOME AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO FOSTER COOPERATION AND UNDERSTANDING WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND AROUND THE WORLD.

  • GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PROGRAM: THE COUNCIL SOUGHT TO ADDRESS COMMUNITY PRIORITIES BY SECURING MORE THAN $5 MILLION IN PUBLIC FUNDING FOR SOCIAL SERVICES FOR ASSOCIATED AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS AND JEWISH COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS. THIS FOCUSED ON AREAS SUCH AS SOCIAL SERVICES FOR OLDER ADULTS, PROTECTION FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS, AND TUITION ASSISTANCE AT DAY SCHOOLS. IN THE MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THE COUNCIL WEIGHED IN ON MORE THAN 100 PIECES OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION AFFECTING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND AGENCIES OF THE ASSOCIATED. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THE BALTIMORE JEWISH COUNCIL (BJC), IN CONCERT WITH OTHER NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, WORKED TO SECURE FUNDING AND TOOK POSITIONS ON ISSUES THAT IMPACTED THE GREATER JEWISH COMMUNITY OF MARYLAND SUCH AS INCREASING AND HELPING TO SECURE THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY'S $13 MILLION NONPROFIT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM.

    Expenses $370,855 · Revenue $56,960

  • ISRAEL ADVOCACY - COORDINATED AND STAFFED THE BALTIMORE ISRAEL COALITION, A GROUP OF PRO-ISRAEL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE BALTIMORE REGION DEDICATED TO CULTURAL AWARENESS AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT OF THE US-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP.

    Expenses $352,762 · Revenue $23,998

  • COMMUNITY RELATIONS - PROMOTED STRONG INTERGROUP RELATIONS BY HOSTING INTERFAITH AND INTERETHNIC DIALOGUES AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS. WORKED WITH NUMEROUS ORGANIZATIONS OF DIFFERENT FAITHS AND MINORITY GROUPS TO BUILD BRIDGES AND COOPERATE ON ISSUES OF MUTUAL INTEREST.

    Expenses $304,719 · Grants $5,646 · Revenue $24,404

  • HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE - THE COUNCIL WORKED TO ENSURE THAT THE LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BY FACILITATING MULTIPLE PUBLIC REMEMBRANCES WITH LARGE ATTENDANCE, SURVIVORS SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AT SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, AND TEACHER TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES. SOME OF THE PROGRAMMING WAS ORGANIZED IN CONJUNCTION WITH TOWSON UNIVERSITY. ALTOGETHER, THE PROGRAMMING REACHED ALMOST 10,000 PEOPLE ACROSS THE BALTIMORE AREA.

    Expenses $183,528 · Revenue $9,679

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.

  • HOWARD LIBIT

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $221,465
    From this org
    $212,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,418
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $212,047
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,377
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,041
    Filer's total
    $221,465
  • ROBIN WEIMAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • AMALIA HONICK

    1ST VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MELANIE SHAPIRO

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • RABBI STEVE SCHWARTZ

    ASSISTANT SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ELIZABETH GREEN

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • RICKY GRATZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • SARAH GROSSMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • RABBI JONATHAN SEIDEMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • DAVID FOLDERAUER

    DIRECTOR OF SECURITY

    Total calculated
    $119,104
    From this org
    $114,102
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,002
    Hours/week
    37.5
  • SARAH MERSKY

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $112,365
    From this org
    $107,481
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,884
    Hours/week
    37.5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,375,567
    Expenses
    $1,495,268
    Contributions
    $1,252,218
    Grants paid
    $5,646
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,359,224
    Expenses
    $1,297,781
    Contributions
    $1,275,888
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,134,089
    Expenses
    $1,151,723
    Contributions
    $1,052,230
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,053,971
    Expenses
    $1,093,111
    Assets (EOY)
    $370,531
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,261,185
    Expenses
    $985,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $428,440
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,066,533
    Expenses
    $1,121,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $257,779
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,067,559
    Expenses
    $1,034,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,547
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,060,057
    Expenses
    $963,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,453
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $974,842
    Expenses
    $903,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,248
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,009,197
    Expenses
    $1,123,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $150,641
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,055,622
    Expenses
    $1,030,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,110
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,063,352
    Expenses
    $1,129,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,669
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,138,383
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,096

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.