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← CHICAGO RABBINICAL COUNCIL INC

Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by CHICAGO RABBINICAL COUNCIL INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$6,255,218
Total expenses
$5,385,842
Contributions and grants received
$563,646
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$5,640,727
Investment income
$5,276
Other revenue
$45,569
Total assets, end of year
$6,844,891
Total liabilities, end of year
$3,804,964
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$3,039,927
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,583,197
Management and general expenses
$802,645
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,583,197

Program services were 85.1% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $8,925

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $552,448

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $2,273

  • 2a · Program service revenue: KOSHER CERTIFICATION

    total $5,473,993 · related or exempt $5,473,993

  • 2b · Program service revenue: CHEVRA KADISHA

    total $82,800 · related or exempt $82,800

  • 2c · Program service revenue: BETH DIN

    total $40,101 · related or exempt $40,101

  • 2d · Program service revenue: ASSOC. OF KASHRUS ORGA

    total $22,550 · related or exempt $22,550

  • 2e · Program service revenue: PUBLICATIONS

    total $19,203 · related or exempt $19,203

  • 2f · All other program service revenue

    total $2,080 · related or exempt $2,080

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $5,276 · excluded $5,276

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $224,898

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $224,898

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

    total $34,621 · excluded $34,621

  • 11b · Other revenue: PROCESSING CHARGE

    total $10,948 · excluded $10,948

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $45,569

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $637,409 · program services $637,409

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $3,542,002 · program services $3,101,325 · management and general $440,677

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $123,157 · program services $107,659 · management and general $15,498

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $299,351 · program services $232,181 · management and general $67,170

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $71,037 · program services $54,381 · management and general $16,656

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $40,152 · program services $31,852 · management and general $8,300

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $30,282 · management and general $30,282

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $12,197 · program services $12,103 · management and general $94

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $15,552 · management and general $15,552

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $104,372 · program services $61,733 · management and general $42,639

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $32,616 · program services $17,714 · management and general $14,902

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $54,115 · program services $3,755 · management and general $50,360

  • 17 · Travel

    total $102,055 · program services $102,055

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $21,338 · program services $20,442 · management and general $896

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $60,066 · program services $14,744 · management and general $45,322

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $46,025 · program services $18,037 · management and general $27,988

  • 24a · Other expenses: BAD DEBT EXPENSE

    total $50,325 · program services $50,325

  • 24b · Other expenses: PUBLICATION EXPENSES

    total $46,998 · program services $30,898 · management and general $16,100

  • 24c · Other expenses: CHEVRA KADISHA EXPENSES

    total $43,891 · program services $43,891

  • 24d · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

    total $27,806 · program services $23,443 · management and general $4,363

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $25,096 · program services $19,250 · management and general $5,846

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $4,244,593 · end of year $1,473,029

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,133,770 · end of year $3,469,021

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $50,602 · end of year $57,205

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,206,247

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $568,086

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $576,278 · end of year $638,161

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $1,006,539

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $211,099 · end of year $196,355

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,496 · end of year $4,581

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $211,192 · end of year $154,021

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $3,346,849 · end of year $3,650,943

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $495,375

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $2,172 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $2,164,250 · end of year $3,039,927

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

THE PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO ADVOCATE, TEACH, AND PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM, SUPERVISE KOSHER FOOD PRODUCTION WORLDWIDE, PROVIDE A BETH DIN COURT OF RABBIS FOR INTERPRETATION OF JEWISH LAW AND PRODUCE EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ADVOCATE, TEACH AND PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM, AS WELL AS SUPERVISE KOSHER FOOD PRODUCTION AND PRODUCE EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS.

  • SUPERVISION OF KOSHER FOOD PRODUCTION WORLDWIDE, EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, AND ADMINISTRATION OF AN ECCLESIASTIC COURT ("BETH DIN").

    Expenses $4,583,197 · Revenue $5,640,727

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Aaron Leibtag

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yochanan Posner

    SECRETARY - UNTIL 12/2022

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Fox

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joel Gutstein

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yehuda Meyers

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yosef Posner

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Zvi Engel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yitchak Falk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shaanan Gelman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Micah Greenland

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Baruch Hertz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yitzhak Hertzel

    DIRECTOR - UNTIL 12/2022

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Netanel Isaacs

    DIRECTOR - UNTIL 12/2022

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jerold Isenberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wes Kalmar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Akiva Males

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leonard Matanky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Meir Moscowitz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Myers

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elisa Prero

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ariel Rackovsky

    DIRECTOR - UNTIL 12/2022

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yosef Schanowitz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chaim Twerski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Josh Zisook

    DIRECTOR - UNTIL 12/2022

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sholem Fishbane

    KASHRUTH ADMINISTRATOR

    Total calculated
    $409,426
    From this org
    $296,763
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $112,663
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,808
    Bonus
    $360
    Other
    $35,595
    Deferred
    $12,200
    Nontaxable benefits
    $100,463
    Filer's total
    $409,426
  • Levi Mostofsky

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $227,983
    From this org
    $160,933
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $67,050
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,300
    Bonus
    $360
    Other
    $4,273
    Deferred
    $8,653
    Nontaxable benefits
    $58,397
    Filer's total
    $227,983
  • Yona Reiss

    AV BETH DIN

    Total calculated
    $334,627
    From this org
    $210,232
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $124,395
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $195,745
    Bonus
    $360
    Other
    $14,127
    Deferred
    $12,200
    Nontaxable benefits
    $112,195
    Filer's total
    $334,627
  • David Cohen

    RABBINICAL COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $309,992
    From this org
    $210,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $99,982
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,481
    Bonus
    $1,360
    Other
    $2,169
    Deferred
    $11,782
    Nontaxable benefits
    $88,200
    Filer's total
    $309,992
  • Yaakov Eisenbach

    RABBINICAL COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $213,494
    From this org
    $142,593
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $70,901
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $129,214
    Bonus
    $1,360
    Other
    $12,019
    Deferred
    $8,065
    Nontaxable benefits
    $62,836
    Filer's total
    $213,494
  • Akiva Neihaus

    RABBINICAL COORDINATOR

    Total calculated
    $210,787
    From this org
    $140,848
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $69,939
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $131,667
    Bonus
    $1,360
    Other
    $7,821
    Deferred
    $7,992
    Nontaxable benefits
    $61,947
    Filer's total
    $210,787

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

PART I, LINE 7
MOST EMPLOYEES ARE GIVEN A SMALL BONUS FOR THE JEWISH NEW YEAR. THE AMOUNT HAS BEEN $360 FOR SOME YEARS NOW. OTHER BONUSES ARE DECIDED BY RABBI SHOLEM FISHBANE FOR EMPLOYEES IN THE KOSHER DEPT AND RABBI MOSTOFSKY IN GENERAL CRC DEPT. THESE ARE BASED ON MERIT FOR DUTIES ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT IS NORMALLY EXPECTED OF THE RECIPIENT.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
10 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202333179349309403

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