Salary Survey 2017: Matthew Brooks Of The Republican Jewish Coalition
Republican Jewish Coalition
Location: Washington, DC
Category: Advocacy or Public Service
Matthew Brooks
Executive Director
The Republican Jewish Coalition is a conservative lobbyist group representing American Jewish Republicans. The organization, founded in 1985, focuses on an array of global policy, social, and civil rights issues. The RJC takes a supportive stance towards Israel.
Organization Website | Guidestar Page
Matthew Brooks has served as executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition since 1990. His conservative political activism dates back to his college years, when he served as the state chairman of the Massachusetts College Republicans while at Brandeis University. He became political director of the RJC in 1988. In addition to his role as executive director of the RJC, he presently serves as the organization’s spokesperson and as the director of the Jewish Policy Center, a conservative Jewish think tank that researches and publishes reports on public policy.
2016
Institution Revenue: $4,667,882
Institution Total Expenses: $4,828,408
Employees: 21
Salary: 632,95020
2014
Institution Revenue: $3,204,393
Institution Total Expenses: $3,156,654
Employees: 18
Salary: $591,10520
Overpaid by: 129%
For information on previous years, see here.
For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.
For information on other Jewish advocacy or public service nonprofits, see here.
1 Interim head of organization
2 Data from 2012
3 Data from 2011
4 Data from 2010
5 Data from 2009
6 Data from 2008
7 Data from 2007
8 Includes payment from SWC Museum Corp.
9 Predecessor’s salary
10 Partial year
11 Not a 501(c)3
12 Annualized
13 Position currently vacant
14 As per Form 990, JNF declined to comment
15 Base salary
16 Data from president-elect period
17 2010 Employees
18 Legally exempt from public disclosure of salary
19 Highest paid professional, not CEO
20 Paid from two related organizations
21 Data from 2013
22 Data from 2014
23 Data from 2015
24 Includes a one-time honorarium of $55,000
25 Data from 2017
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..
Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO