- Revenue 2024
- $521,367
- Expenses 2024
- $533,625
Program services were 63.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2700
- Street
- 1121 INDIANA ST
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).
Group exemption
A subordinate covered by the group exemption of HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE (EIN 52-1844823). matched by us
The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
KU Hillel's mission is to connect Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, to inspire and equip the next generation of Jewish leaders, and to build a thriving Jewish community on campus.
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KU Hillel connects Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, inspires and equips the next generation of Jewish leaders and builds a thriving Jewish community on campus. We are developing Jewish adults delivering the Jewish future. The University of Kansas has emerged as a destination school for Jewish students from all around the country. Our strong Jewish community provides numerous opportunities to connect to Jewish life both on and off campus. At the heart of it all is KU Hillel, widely regarded as one of the most innovative and impactful Hillels in the entire country. Jewish leadership is a cornerstone of the KU Hillel mission. Our goal is to equip the next generation with the skills they need to take on leadership roles in their communities after they graduate from college. KU Hillel has a robust leadership curriculum that provides students with opportunities to explore their Jewish identities while strengthening their leadership abilities. Our programs include - provision of therapeutic services in partnership with JFSKC, Shabbat and Jewish holiday services, social, volunteer, and educational programming. Our programs include: provision of therapeutic services in partnership with JFSKC; Shabbat & Jewish Holiday services; social, volunteer, leadership development, and educational programming.
Expenses $337,950 · Revenue $4,640
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.
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Ethan Helfand
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $63,335
- From this org
- $54,709
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $8,626
- Hours/week
- 40 + 40 related
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Scott Sher
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Alicia Klein
VP Budget & Finance
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Stephanie Kavanaugh
VP Financial Resource Development
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Shannon Maker
Vice President and Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Brad Smuckler
VP Community Engagement
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lon Lowenstein
Immediate Past Chair & Chair of Nominating Committee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Fred Kahn
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Megan Pener
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Kara Kahn
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Debbie Kricsfeld
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Sarah Schuster
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Carly Stein
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Karen Gerson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tamara Lawson Schuster
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Sarah Glaser
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $521,367
- Expenses
- $533,625
- Contributions
- $516,487
- Grants paid
- $8,125
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2023
- Revenue
- $388,734
- Expenses
- $504,785
- Contributions
- $402,886
- Grants paid
- $4,762
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2022
- Revenue
- $653,132
- Expenses
- $637,059
- Contributions
- $645,494
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $562,191
- Expenses
- $621,867
- Assets (EOY)
- $659,489
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $565,371
- Expenses
- $670,764
- Assets (EOY)
- $756,183
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $785,232
- Expenses
- $847,956
- Assets (EOY)
- $797,769
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $822,227
- Expenses
- $882,721
- Assets (EOY)
- $781,257
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $816,181
- Expenses
- $708,926
- Assets (EOY)
- $862,062
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $653,919
- Expenses
- $710,481
- Assets (EOY)
- $752,502
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $704,969
- Expenses
- $657,014
- Assets (EOY)
- $779,288
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $538,988
- Expenses
- $624,586
- Assets (EOY)
- $754,393
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $809,952
- Expenses
- $639,494
- Assets (EOY)
- $880,700
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $579,845
- Assets (EOY)
- $884,902
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
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$55,000
2022 THRIVING JEWISH STUDENT COMMUNITY, MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE
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$55,000
2023 GRANT AWARD TO KU HILLEL: THRIVING JEWISH STUDENT COMMUNITY.
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$50,000
2024 GRANT AWARD. PLEASE APPLY $25,000 TO KU HILLEL THRIVING JEWISH STUDENT COMMUNITY AND $25,000 TO KU HILLEL MENTAL INITIATIVE.
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$50,000
2025 GRANT AWARD FOR KU HILLEL: THRIVING JEWISH STUDENT COMMUNITY.
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2023 Program Grant
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2022 PROGRAM SUPPORT
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2025 GRANT AWARD FROM THE BOARD.
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2024 Program Grant
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2024 UNRESTRICTED DONATION.
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2023 RESTRICTED DONATION TO SENIOR JEWISH EDUCATOR.
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
Not present in the most recent drop.
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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.