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Anti-Defamation League

Location: New York, NY

Category: Advocacy or Public Service

Jonathan Greenblatt

National Director

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The Anti-Defamation League is a prominent civil rights organization dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry worldwide. The ADL was founded in 1913 by B’nai Brith, a popular Jewish service organization, in response to increasing attacks on Jews. Today, the organization frequently publishes reports documenting cases of anti-Semitism across the globe, lobbies politicians to advance Jewish interests, and has 29 offices in the United States and three offices in other countries.

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Jonathan Greenblatt is the national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Greenblatt’s relationship to the organization started with a college internship, continuing with his participation in an ADL professional leadership program. He is a social entrepreneur, government official and corporate executive with extensive experience in building and creating innovative public-private partnerships. He has served as special assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation since 2011. A graduate of Tufts University, he is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Nazi Germany. He has had a lifelong commitment to Jewish social causes.

2016

Institution Revenue: $65,971,077

Institution Total Expenses: $58,428,555

Employees: 388

Salary: $545,441

2014

Institution Revenue: $55,295,291

Institution Total Expenses: $54,166,490

Employees: 408

Salary: $689,830 ⁹

Overpaid by: 57%

For information on previous years, see here.

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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}

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