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PROJECT KESHER

EIN 36-3673594 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$3,465,603
Expenses 2024
$2,915,020

Program services were 80.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
2660 BROADWAY 16

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

Project Keshers mission is to build Jewish community and advance civil society by developing and empowering women leaders. Vision: Project Kesher will expand and deepen a sustainable, global network of women leaders who are steeped in Jewish values and work to improve the quality of their lives and their societies. Values: The values that drive Project Kesher today and into the future are based on: - Judaism: a deep commitment to tzedek, the pursuit of social justice; gemilut chasadim, loving kindness; the truth that all people are BtzelemElohim, created in the image of G-d; an embrace of Klal Yisroel, Jewish peoplehood; and a belief that Jewish education and learning should inform all of our activities. - Feminism: a deep commitment to gender equality; a recognition of womens unique ability to nurture and education one another and empower ourselves; a recognition that womens philanthropy can address the issues women prioritize. - Pluralism: a deep commitment to foster religious and et

Activities or mission (Part I)

Project Keshers mission is to build Jewish community and advance civil society bydeveloping and empowering women leaders.

  • Project Kesher (PK) continued to invest in the empowerment of women and girls and supported grassroots networks of Jewish women leaders in Ukraine and Israel as they advocated for Jewish life, the advancement of women's rights, and promotion of civil society. Founded in 1989, PK helped incorporate affiliated, independent nonprofit organizations in Ukraine and Israel. In partnership for over 30 years, PK raises resources, cultivates relationships, and generates awareness for the organizations and women in our network. Annual flagship programs have included womens leadership training, Jewish education and holiday celebrations, health advocacy, and economic empowerment.With more than 30 years experience and a fully operational team in Ukraine, Project Kesher Ukraine (PKU) was able to shift and respond when Russia escalated the war in February 2022. PKU has firsthand knowledge of the humanitarian and mental health needs of women in Ukraine because its longtime activists are in Ukraine and have extensive experience with this demographic. Through trusted wartime partners and historic allies, PKU leaders know where food and supplies are needed in the larger society and ensure that they get deliveries. Due to the fact that PK, PKU, and our partners are small and enormously flexible, these organizations can respond to communities with less than 48 hours notice.

    Expenses $2,344,875 · Grants $2,113,053

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.

  • Karyn Gershon

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $219,224
    From this org
    $192,187
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,037
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,187
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,110
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,927
    Filer's total
    $219,224
  • Samantha Tieger

    Director of Dev.

    Total calculated
    $119,015
    From this org
    $97,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $21,415
    Hours/week
    40
  • Olga Zelzburg Alterman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sarah Clarkson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Judith Smith

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Roz Blanck

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Diane Wohl

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sheila Friedland

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Barbara Glickstein

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Sheila Lambert

    Finance, Exec.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Elisabeth Lerner

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Shari Lusskin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Beth Mann

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Kate Epstein Mankoff

    Comm. Committee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Arleen Priest

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Deborah Roberts

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Eunice Ward

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Janet Winter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $3,465,603
    Expenses
    $2,915,020
    Contributions
    $3,463,041
    Grants paid
    $2,113,053
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,269,523
    Expenses
    $2,757,113
    Contributions
    $2,267,742
    Grants paid
    $1,959,701
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,194,520
    Expenses
    $2,417,279
    Contributions
    $2,137,348
    Grants paid
    $1,617,067

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
    $2,804,030
    Expenses
    $2,014,220
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,385,384
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,240,402
    Expenses
    $1,174,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $651,824
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,242,185
    Expenses
    $1,338,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $585,074
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,183,592
    Expenses
    $1,191,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $625,796
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,612,054
    Expenses
    $1,107,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $693,240
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,233,350
    Expenses
    $1,141,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $165,003
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,119,311
    Expenses
    $1,265,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,102
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,437,025
    Expenses
    $1,371,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,564
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,421,962
    Expenses
    $1,440,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $154,476
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,522,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $248,197

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.