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AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC

EIN 13-3914342 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2024
$4,677,531
Expenses 2024
$4,083,377

Program services were 73.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S80
Classification
1000
Street
195 MONTAGUE ST 14TH FL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,677,531
    Expenses
    $4,083,377
    Contributions
    $4,180,669
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,651,492
    Expenses
    $4,620,315
    Contributions
    $4,167,884
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,136,092
    Expenses
    $4,322,107
    Contributions
    $3,661,067
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,032,872
    Expenses
    $4,645,691
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,569,454
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,494,676
    Expenses
    $3,813,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,192,457
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,088,584
    Expenses
    $3,491,079
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,433,974
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,416,174
    Expenses
    $3,507,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,806,938
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,298,106
    Expenses
    $3,191,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,888,634
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,298,106
    Expenses
    $3,191,077
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,888,634
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,265,361
    Expenses
    $2,824,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,806,137
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,519,668
    Expenses
    $2,670,298
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,393,231
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,608,298
    Expenses
    $2,514,236
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,470,819
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,238,246
    Expenses
    $2,580,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,389,025

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.