Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,223,755 to it, the largest being UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ($238,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $677k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-487059
What National Conference on Soviet Jewry does
Mission
The mission of ncsej is to safeguard the individual and communal political rights of jews living in the former soviet union and to secure their religious and political freedoms.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy, public information and education - responding to specific requests with updated information to individual cases and developments in the former soviet union. This is done through mailings to member agencies and local community affiliates, including nearly 300 local jewish community councils and federations.
$163,976 spent53% of program spendingCommunity liason and servicing - includes ncsej staff and officers' travel for briefings and particpation in meetings of the executive committee and board of governors. Materials, such as guidelines for special projects, are provided through mailings and telephone contact.
$84,771 spent27% of program spendingPublicity and promotion - keeping the issue in the public eye by disseminating information and highlighting special events through press releases, press conferences, background briefings and radio and television appearances.
$30,605 spent10% of program spendingPublications & ncsej and other meetings - publications - includes the preparations, production and distribution of pamphlets and periodicals. Ncsej and other meetings: participating in international meetings fighting anti-semitism.
$31,206 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $310,558.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $572k to $153k (−73%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mark B Levin
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $49k → $251k.
13 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 33% · 2019 37% · 2020 28% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
35% of NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $598k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $626k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY?
- NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,223,755 to it, the largest being UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ($238,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,223,755 in grants to NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY?
- UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $238,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 36 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing