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← AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$4,677,531
Total expenses
$4,083,377
Contributions and grants received
$4,180,669
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$485,417
Investment income
$211
Other revenue
$11,234
Total assets, end of year
$2,958,673
Total liabilities, end of year
$161,921
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,796,752
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,004,184
Management and general expenses
$744,548
Fundraising expenses
$334,645
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,004,184

Program services were 73.6% 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.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,180,669

  • 2a · Program service revenue: HOUSING ALLOWANCE

    total $239,508 · related or exempt $239,508

  • 2b · Program service revenue: PLACEMENT FEES

    total $201,600 · related or exempt $201,600

  • 2c · Program service revenue: ALUMNI PROGRAM FEES

    total $29,785 · related or exempt $29,785

  • 2d · Program service revenue: FELLOWSHIP FEES

    total $9,436 · related or exempt $9,436

  • 2e · Program service revenue: TRAININGS AND WORKSHOP

    total $5,088 · related or exempt $5,088

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $211 · excluded $211

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $11,234 · related or exempt $11,234

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $11,234

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $225,637 · program services $175,997 · management and general $27,076 · fundraising $22,564

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,191,015 · program services $1,708,992 · management and general $262,922 · fundraising $219,101

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $59,168 · program services $46,151 · management and general $7,100 · fundraising $5,917

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $285,158 · program services $222,423 · management and general $34,219 · fundraising $28,516

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $178,961 · program services $139,590 · management and general $21,475 · fundraising $17,896

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $25,322 · management and general $25,322

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $141,145 · program services $36,635 · management and general $102,890 · fundraising $1,620

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $7,307 · management and general $7,307

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $38,900 · program services $2,274 · management and general $36,626

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $428,692 · program services $407,927 · management and general $20,765

  • 17 · Travel

    total $19,735 · management and general $19,735

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $16,788 · program services $16,788

  • 24a · Other expenses: WEEKLY PROGRAM COSTS

    total $123,166 · program services $123,166

  • 24b · Other expenses: BAD DEBT

    total $93,154 · management and general $93,154

  • 24c · Other expenses: DUES, LICENSES, PERMITS

    total $67,127 · management and general $67,127

  • 24d · Other expenses: PARTICIPANT ORIENTATION

    total $52,837 · program services $52,837

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $129,265 · program services $71,404 · management and general $18,830 · fundraising $39,031

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $443,543 · end of year $740,549

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $5,642 · end of year $5,707

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,118,076 · end of year $1,401,428

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $27,488 · end of year $42,568

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $90,332 · end of year $77,287

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

    $124,780

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

    $124,780

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $657,199 · end of year $660,655

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $258 · end of year $204

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $36,700 · end of year $30,275

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $147,290 · end of year $153,991

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $29,350 · end of year $7,930

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $774,098 · end of year $797,101

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,428,500 · end of year $1,999,651

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AVODAH DEVELOPS LIFELONG SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERS WHOSE WORK IS INFORMED BY JEWISH VALUES AND WHO INSPIRE THE JEWISH COMMUNITY TO WORK TOWARD A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AVODAH DEVELOPS LIFELONG JEWISH SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERS TO WORK FOR A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE WORLD.

  • AVODAH IS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT HAS BUILT A NEW GENERATION OF JEWISH LEADERS COMMITTED TO SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR OVER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. THROUGH OUR YOUNG ADULT PROGRAMS -- THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS AND JUSTICE FELLOWSHIP -- WE PROVIDE YOUNG JEWISH LEADERS WITH THE TOOLS, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND NETWORKS THEY NEED TO CREATE A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE COUNTRY. AVODAH HAS A PROFOUND AND LASTING IMPACT ON OUR PARTICIPANTS, BOTH DURING OUR IMMERSIVE PROGRAMS AND ONCE THEY BECOME PART OF OUR EXPANSIVE NATIONAL AVODAH ALUMNI NETWORK OF APPROXIMATELY 1,500 INDIVIDUALS. THROUGH THE 2022 LAUNCH OF THE AVODAH INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, WE'VE EXPANDED OUR OFFERINGS BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, TRAINING, ADVISING, AND PROGRAMMING TO MID-CAREER AND SENIOR JEWISH LEADERS TO DEEPEN THEIR INSTITUTIONS' COMMITMENT TO SOCIAL CHANGE.

    Expenses $3,004,184 · Revenue $441,108

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Benetta Mansfield

    ACTING BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Max Rothstein

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Deborah Levine

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elana Bildner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ilana Zafran Walden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karyn Polak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rose Jagust

    BOARD CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sheila Lambert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Becca Felsenthal

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elli Krandel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hilary Johns Felton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edward Hamburg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marty Friedman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cheryl Cook

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $228,761
    From this org
    $225,637
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,124
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $225,637
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,406
    Nontaxable benefits
    $718
    Filer's total
    $228,761

  • Bonnie Schwartz Nolan

    CFO (HIRED SEPT. 2024)

    Total calculated
    $39,612
    From this org
    $36,291
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,321
    Hours/week
    40

  • Shira Sarfati

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $155,632
    From this org
    $150,721
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,911
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,721
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,582
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,329
    Filer's total
    $155,632

  • Sarra Alpert

    DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTE

    Total calculated
    $127,136
    From this org
    $116,513
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,623
    Hours/week
    40

  • Rachel Glicksman

    CHIEF PEOPLE AND OPERATION

    Total calculated
    $122,941
    From this org
    $113,835
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,106
    Hours/week
    40

  • Emilia Diamant

    CHEIF PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $125,507
    From this org
    $116,071
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,436
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

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
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

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
2024
Filed
20 February 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202630519349301318

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