Charity profile · Historical source record

Commentary

EIN 13-3610041Arts, Culture, Humanities New York Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

America's premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life

COMMENTARY is America's premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neo-conservatism in the 1970s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideologies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards. COMMENTARY was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Committee.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

90.59Overall score
out of 100

92.52Financial score
out of 100

89.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,288,700

Total expenses · USD$3,059,126

Program expenses

$2,386,118.28 recorded amount

78.0%

Fundraising expenses

$128,483.29 recorded amount

4.2%

Administrative expenses

$538,406.18 recorded amount

17.6%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.07 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: John Podhoretz
Recorded compensation: $385,245.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 12.59%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Commentary
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	89.0
`category` Category	Arts, Culture, Humanities
`description` Mission & description	COMMENTARY is America's premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life. Since its inception in 1945, and increasingly after it emerged as the flagship of neo-conservatism in the 1970s, the magazine has been consistently engaged with several large, interrelated questions: the fate of democracy and of democratic ideas in a world threatened by totalitarian ideologies; the state of American and Western security; the future of the Jews, Judaism, and Jewish culture in Israel, the United States, and around the world; and the preservation of high culture in an age of political correctness and the collapse of critical standards. COMMENTARY was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Committee.
`ein` EIN	13-3610041
`tot_exp` Total expenses	3059126.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.17600000000000002
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.07
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.042
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.78
`fscore` Financial score	92.52
`leader` Recorded leader	John Podhoretz
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	385245.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.1259
`motto` Tagline	America's premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life
`name` Charity name	Commentary
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2288700.0
`score` Overall score	90.59
`state` State code	NY
`subcategory` Subcategory	Public Broadcasting and Media
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	2386118.2800000003
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	128483.292
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	538406.1760000001

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 13-3610041
Source category: Arts, Culture, Humanities
Source subcategory: Public Broadcasting and Media
Recorded location: New York (NY)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.