
Hazon
Location: New York, NY
Category: Advocacy or Public Service
Nigel Savage
Executive Director
Hazon seeks to build “healthier and more sustainable communities in the Jewish world and beyond.” Founded in 2000, Hazon has cultivated and helped fund the Jewish environmental movement in North America and Israel. Hazon organizes bike rides to raise awareness and money for Jewish environmental work, and runs a variety of food-related programs, including over 60 community-supported agriculture projects and the Hazon Food Conference. Hazon recently merged with the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center, and its affiliates include Adamah, the Jewish Greening Fellowship, and the Jewish Farm School.
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Nigel Savage is the executive director and founder of Hazon. He previously worked in finance, as a professional fund manager at the City of London Investment Group, and in the movie industry, as executive producer of two British independent films. Savage also helped found Limmud NY and served as a board member of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center for nine years. A native of Manchester, England, Savage has studied at the Pardes Institute and Hebrew University, and received a master’s degree in history from Georgetown University.
2014
Institution Revenue: $9,053,001
Institution Total Expenses: $6,541,102
Employees: 65
Salary: $155,338
Underpaid by: 47%
2013
Institution Revenue: $2,929,322
Institution Total Expenses: $3,157,683
Employees: 42
Salary: $157,650
2012
Institution Total Expenses: $2,787,69721
Employees: 3321
Salary: $160,65021
Underpaid by: 28%
2011
Institution Total Expenses: $3,234,140
Employees: 39
Salary: $148,456
2010
Institution Total Expenses: $2,669,861
Salary: $143,416
2009
Salary: $111,100
2008
Salary: $104,8207
- 1Interim head of organization
- 2Data from 2012
- 3Data from 2011
- 4Data from 2010
- 5Data from 2009
- 6Data from 2008
- 7Data from 2007
- 8Includes payment from SWC Museum Corp.
- 9Predecessor's salary
- 10Partial year
- 11Not a 501(c)3
- 12Annualized
- 13Position currently vacant
- 14As per Form 990, JNF declined to comment
- 15Base salary
- 16Data from president-elect period
- 172010 Employees
- 18Legally exempt from public disclosure of salary
- 19Highest paid professional, not CEO
- 20Paid from two related organizations
- 21Data from 2013
- 22Data from 2014
- 23Data from 2015
- 24Includes a one-time honorarium of $55,000