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Salary Survey: Jeffrey Cooper Of ORT America

ORT America

Location: New York, NY

Category: Advocacy or Public Service

Jeffrey Cooper

CEO

ORT America is the American branch of World ORT, an international network of schools and vocational training programs for both Jews and non-Jews. ORT America operates technical colleges in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and runs a resource center for Jewish educators in Michigan. ORT America also supports the work of World ORT, which operates in more than 60 countries and serves over 200,000 students each year.

Organization Website | Guidestar Page

Jeffrey Cooper, a native of New Jersey, came to ORT America from the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, where he was the controller for racing. A CPA and graduate of the University of Albany in Accounting, he has had a long career in finance and management. ORT lists operations management, process system design and budgeting as among Cooper’s “core competencies.”

2016

Institution Revenue: $15,463,735

Institution Total Expenses: $14,990,718

Employees: 76

Salary: $235,0009

2014

Institution Revenue: $16,185,237

Institution Total Expenses: $15,301,689

Employees: 83

Salary: $227,9289

For information on previous years, see here.

For information on other Jewish nonprofits, see here.

For information on other Jewish religious and education 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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