Here is Part II of our look at Institutional Transparency in Tzedakah Organizations. We will list major tzedakah organizations which publicly file their financial information, using the IRS Form 990 for non-profits. Links are to the most recent Form 990 stored on the Guidestar website.
(Part I was here.)
Umbrella Organizations – Torah Education and Program Services
Agudath Israel of America
Agudath Israel of America Foundation
EDAH
National Council of Young Israel - DOES NOT FILE
OU – Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America - DOES NOT FILE
Torah uMesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
Primarily Fundraisers
AMIT Women
Emunah Women of America
National Council of Young Israel's Yisrael haTzair supporting National Council efforts in Israel
RZA (Religious Zionists of America)
Program-Specific Organizations
Bnei Akiva of the US and Canada
Chabad Lubavitch National Campus Foundation
JOFA (Jewish Orthodox Feminists of America)
Rabbinical Council of America
Star K Supervision
ZOA (Zionist Organization of America)
Outreach and Educational Programming
AJOP
AOJS (Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists)
Chabad Lubavitch Torah Educational Services
Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation
Merkos l’Inyonei Chinuch (But why nothing since 1998?)
National Jewish Outreach Program
Torah MiTzion Kollelim - St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit
Educational Institutions (Yeshivot and Colleges)
Beis Medrash Govoha (Lakewood Yeshiva)
Drisha
Hebrew Theological College (Skokie) - DOES NOT FILE
Ner Israel Rabbinical College - DOES NOT FILE
Rabbinical College of America (Lubavitch - Morristown, NJ)
RIETS (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary)
Sh’or Yoshuv - DOES NOT FILE
Touro College
Touro University
Yeshiva Chaim Berlin - DOES NOT FILE
Yeshiva Chovevei Torah
Rabbi Israel Meyer haCohen Rabbinical Seminary of America (Chofetz Chaim) - DOES NOT FILE
Yeshiva Torah voDaath - DOES NOT FILE
Yeshiva University
Note, as we said in Part I, that the following religious organizations are technically exempt:
1. A church, an interchurch organization of local units of a church, a convention or association of churches, or an integrated auxiliary of a church as described in Regulations section 1.6033-2(h) (such as a men’s or women’s organization, religious school, mission society, or youth group).
2. A church-affiliated organization that is exclusively engaged in managing funds or maintaining retirement programs and is described in Rev. Proc. 96-10, 1996-1 C.B. 577.
3. A school below college level affiliated with a church or operated by a religious order described in Regulations section 1.6033-2(g)(1)(vii).
4. A mission society sponsored by, or affiliated with, one or more churches or church denominations, if more than half of the society’s activities are conducted in, or directed at, persons in foreign countries.
5. An exclusively religious activity of any religious order described in Rev. Proc. 91-20, 1991-1 C.B. 524.
Also, organizations are exempt if their annual gross receipts are normally less than $25,000.
(For more information, see the IRS pdf here.)
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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still no day schools?
ReplyDeletei think i once saw a 990 for central?
ReplyDeleteMost of the institutions/organizations on this list are duplicates of the ones on the first list. What is missing for the most part from both lists is what "Joe Everyman" would call a tzedaka organization--things like the various Bikur Cholim groups, Hatzoloh, Yad L'Achim etc. And far too few yeshivas represented.
ReplyDeleteLion, wouldn't Central be subsumed under YU as one of its entities?
Lion-
ReplyDeleteListing day schools - I don't have the time to go for the day schools and high schools; there are, thank Gd, hundreds of them.
Central - Yes, there is a separate 990 listed for Yeshiva University High Schools.
ProfK-
Half to 2/3 are yesterday's list, but I found this a better way to organize the information and figured it would make sense to include yesterday's.
Re: The various tzedakah orgs you mention - True, but (almost) all of those do file 990s.
"I don't have the time to go for the day schools and high schools"
ReplyDeleteyou'd be wasting your time. most take advantage of the exemption and don't file.
PROFK:
personally i'm more interested in seeing in a day school 990 than one for bikkur cholim. i don't give thousnds of dollars a year to the latter
can you imagine a day school where the principal and (even worse,) the executive director's salary publically known!
ReplyDelete(of course, central's principals salary is listed a bit too high, in my opinion, but i believe they do fundraising, too. and fundraisers command, basically, a percentage of what they raise. perhaps transparency should extend to disclosure of the %age. and standards should be set for the %age.)
the only real value of 990's is "executive salaries" (and maybe some questionable "consultants" and real estate payments to "principals").
ReplyDeletedrisha once listed (havent looked at them for a long while) the names and (home addresses -- too personal) and amounts of their grants -- fellowships.
perhaps some more info on who / what an organization gives its $ to.
by the way, the rca, for many years claimed its budget was under $25,000, thus exempt from filing a 990. (of course, it had several well paid executives the whole time)
FA-
ReplyDeleteI know you and like you, but please try to keep the lashon hara out. Thanks.
please delete the end of my last comment. perhaps it was over the top. (besides, there's nothing wrong with paying executives a good sal, but that was not what i meant. delete this parenth, too.)
ReplyDeleteFA-
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I can't edit comments, only delete them entirely. Would you like me to do that?