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JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY INC

EIN 81-5088618 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2024
$4,994,939
Expenses 2024
$4,726,330

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1200
Street
873 BROADWAY

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

JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY WORKS TO PRESERVE AND CELEBRATE JEWISH CULINARY HERITAGE FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN ORDER TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND DEEPEN CONNECTIONS TO JEWISH LIFE. JFS IS COMMITTED TO SHOWCASING THE DIVERSITY OF THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE, INSTILLING PRIDE, AND PROVIDING SPACE FOR COMPLEX CONVERSATIONS. AT THE HEART OF JFS'S WORK IS A DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF JEWISH FAMILY RECIPES AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM AND WE BRING THE ARCHIVE TO LIFE THROUGH A RANGE OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUCH AS SHABBAT DINNERS, COOKING DEMOS AND STORYTELLING EVENTS INCLUDING THE FLAGSHIP EVENT THE GREAT NOSH, A MASSIVE PUBLIC PICNIC IN NYC.

  • JEWISH FOOD SOCIETY WORKS TO PRESERVE AND CELEBRATE JEWISH CULINARY HERITAGE FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN ORDER TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND DEEPEN CONNECTIONS TO JEWISH LIFE. JFS IS COMMITTED TO SHOWCASING THE DIVERSITY OF THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE, INSTILLING PRIDE, AND PROVIDING SPACE FOR COMPLEX CONVERSATIONS. AT THE HEART OF JFS'S WORK IS A DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF JEWISH FAMILY RECIPES AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM AND WE BRING THE ARCHIVE TO LIFE THROUGH A RANGE OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUCH AS SHABBAT DINNERS, COOKING DEMOS, WORKSHOPS AND STORYTELLING EVENTS INCLUDING OUR FLAGSHIP EVENT THE GREAT NOSH, A MASSIVE PUBLIC PICNIC IN NYC, WHICH LAUNCHED IN 2025.

    Expenses $4,240,629 · Grants $3,051,820 · Revenue $109,565

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • TERRY KASSEL

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARA BLOOM

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBORAH HOCHBERG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ADEENA SUSSMAN

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL SOLOMONOV

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK REISBAUM

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHARI ARONSON

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVEN BOAL

    BOARD DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NAAMA SHEFI

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $180,000
    From this org
    $177,324
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,676
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $177,324
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,676
    Filer's total
    $180,000

  • YAEL RAVIV

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $142,000
    From this org
    $142,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • AMANDA DELL

    VP PROGRAMS & COMMUNICATION

    Total calculated
    $140,000
    From this org
    $137,324
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,676
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $4,994,939
    Expenses
    $4,726,330
    Contributions
    $4,885,374
    Grants paid
    $3,051,820
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,074,149
    Expenses
    $4,951,830
    Contributions
    $5,002,041
    Grants paid
    $3,304,550
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,964,027
    Expenses
    $3,381,577
    Contributions
    $2,935,838
    Grants paid
    $1,924,020

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
    $1,646,827
    Expenses
    $1,648,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $403,172

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,140,754
    Expenses
    $790,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $396,153

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $420,558
    Expenses
    $534,189
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,215

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.

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 13 October 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 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.