Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$1,558,763

Total expenses

$1,177,360

Contributions and grants received

$1,548,626

Grants paid

$509,792

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$1,577

Other revenue

$8,560

Total assets, end of year

$2,048,031

Total liabilities, end of year

$65,630

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,982,401

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$984,145

Management and general expenses

$162,376

Fundraising expenses

$30,839

Program service expenses (Part III)

$984,145

Program services were 83.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• IN 2022, OEUSA PRESENTED FREE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS FOR THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE US ABOUT THE URGENCY OF ASSISTING JEWISH PEOPLE TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, OEUSA'S STAFF AND 61 VOLUNTEERS WORKED TO EDUCATE THE US PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH PERSONS SUFFERING PERSECUTION IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU) AND ELSEWHERE, INCLUDING IN THE US. OEUSA ALSO WORKED TO EDUCATE BOTH CHRISTIANS AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE US ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE. IN 2022, OEUSA'S 849 PRAYER INTERCESSORS (PRAYER PARTNERS) PROVIDED VITAL SPIRITUAL SUPPORT FOR OEUSA. FURTHER, OEUSA PROVIDED UPDATES ON ITS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO 261 CHURCHES AND 8534 INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS. IN ADDITION, A MEMBER OF OEUSA'S BOARD MET WITH THE BOARD OF EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL, IN GERMANY AND BUDAPEST. THESE MEETINGS ENABLED OEUSA AND EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL TO DISCUSS SIMILAR ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY EACH ORGANIZATION TO ASSIST DISTRESSED JEWISH PERSONS IN THE FSU. IN ORDER TO SUPPORT ITS ACTIVITIES, OEUSA MAINTAINED OFFICES IN THE US LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY AND OEUSA'S HEADQUARTERS IN LANCASTER, NEW YORK. OEUSA IS A MEMBER OF THE EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY (EFCA).

  Expenses $790,930 · Grants $316,577

• DURING 2022, OEUSA ASSISTED 506 DISTRESSED AND PERSECUTED JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE US TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL (MAKE ALIYAH). IN PROVIDING RELIEF TO DISTRESSED JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING TO MAKE ALIYAH TO ISRAEL, OEUSA IS SUPPORTING THE LONG HELD BELIEFS OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE CLAIMING THEIR RIGHT TO FREELY EXERCISE THEIR RELIGION. OEUSA ALSO PROVIDED SUPPORT TO JEWISH YOUTH THROUGH MITZVAH PROJECTS.

  Expenses $162,376 · Grants $162,376

• DURING 2022, OEUSA PROVIDED FUNDING FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO JEWISH PEOPLE, INCLUDING POVERTY-STRICKEN AND PERSECUTED JEWS LIVING IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU). THIS FUNDING FOR JEWISH PEOPLE WAS PROVIDED THROUGH EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL (EEFI) UNDER A WRITTEN CONTRACT ALLOWING OEUSA TO EXERCISE CONTROL AND DISCRETION OF THE FUNDING. THIS FUNDING ALLOWED 16,788 JEWISH PEOPLE LIVING IN THE FSU TO EMIGRATE TO THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. FUNDS PROVIDED BY OEUSA TO EEFI ALSO ALLOWED EEFI TO MAINTAIN 19 STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS AT 4 BASES IN THE FSU, WHICH, IN TURN, ENABLED EEFI TO CONDUCT THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES. SPECIFICALLY, OEUSA'S FUNDING TO EEFI ALLOWED EEFI TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO 3339 POVERTY-STRICKEN AND PERSECUTED JEWISH FAMILIES IN THE FSU. IN ADDITION, OEUSA'S FUNDING TO EEFI MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EEFI TO PROVIDE 1,787 JEWISH FAMILIES WITH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ABOUT EEFI'S PROGRAM TO AID PERSECUTED AND POVERTY-STRICKEN JEWISH PEOPLE IN RETURNING TO THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. OEUSA'S GRANT FUNDING ALSO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EEFI'S STAFF TO PROVIDE 1043 CARE PACKAGES OF FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS TO POOR AND ISOLATED JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH FAMILIES IN THE FSU. IN ADDITION, OEUSA'S GRANT FUNDING ALLOWED EEFI TO MAKE 758 EDUCATIONAL VISITS TO CHURCHES IN THE FSU TO DESCRIBE EEJI'S PROGRAM TO ASSIST PERSECUTED AND NEEDY JEWISH PEOPLE TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL.

  Expenses $30,839 · Grants $30,839

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

28 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202312789349301556

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