- 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2023
-
2024 HUMANITARIAN FUND
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$364,050
2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$234,510
2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
2023 JEWISH LIFE/RESPONDING TO CRISES
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$181,600
2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 CARING/JEWISH LIFE/RESPONDING TO CRISES
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.