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Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

Location: Atlanta, GA

Category: Federation

Eric Robbins

President & CEO

The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta serves a Jewish population of over 100,000. In support of its mission to foster Jewish engagement and address the needs of the Jewish community, it helps fund a network of agencies that provide social services and educational programming to communities locally and internationally.

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Eric Robbins became CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta in August 2016. Previously, Robbins was the CEO of Camp Twin Lakes for 11 years. Before his tenure at Camp Twin Lakes, he was the associate executive director of the Jewish Community Center MetroWest in northern New Jersey for over five years and he was deputy executive director of The Educational Alliance. He had also been the executive director of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat for seven years. Robbins earned his B.S. in Psychology from Georgia State University and an M.A. in Social Work from Yeshiva University.

2016

Institution Revenue: $58,272,275

Institution Total Expenses: $38,085,947

Employees: 72

Salary: 308,578⁹

2014

Institution Revenue: $41,288,146

Institution Total Expenses: $30,276,490

Employees: 63

Salary: $303,848

Underpaid by: 22%

For information on previous years, see here.

For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.

For information on other Jewish federations leaders, 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}

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