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AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 13-1764804 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$2,761,274
Expenses 2024
$2,206,553

Program services were 67.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82Z
Classification
1000
Street
15 W 16TH ST

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).

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.

  • GEMMA BIRNBAUM

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $237,029
    From this org
    $218,762
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,267
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $218,762
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,643
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,624
    Filer's total
    $237,029

  • MELANIE MEYERS-MCCARTY

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR CHAIR, COLLECTIONS AND ENGAGEMENT

    Total calculated
    $155,421
    From this org
    $111,633
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,788
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $111,633
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,660
    Nontaxable benefits
    $40,128
    Filer's total
    $155,421

  • PATRICIA COTTEN

    DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT

    Total calculated
    $134,645
    From this org
    $118,953
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,692
    Hours/week
    40

  • CHARLES KNAPP

    CHAIR - ON 12/31/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FELICIA HERMAN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT EINHORN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN LEWIS

    VICE PRESIDENT - ON 12/31/23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSHUA H LANDES

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAMUEL R KARETSKY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBORAH DASH MOORE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARC DOLLINGER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SIDNEY LAPIDUS

    TRUSTEE - CHAIR EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFF MANKOFF

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIC MORGENSTERN

    TRUSTEE - ON 4/18/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NANCY T POLEVOY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DANA RAUCHER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE SALAMON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MORTON STEINBERG

    TRUSTEE - OFF 4/18/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JUSTIN WYNER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN

    TRUSTEE - OFF 4/18/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEDY ZANKEL

    TRUSTEE

    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 — 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
    $2,761,274
    Expenses
    $2,206,553
    Contributions
    $2,501,073
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,753,581
    Expenses
    $2,029,848
    Contributions
    $2,429,498
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,753,581
    Expenses
    $2,029,848
    Contributions
    $2,429,498
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,813,185
    Expenses
    $2,030,854
    Contributions
    $1,553,213
    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.

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.