Belev Echad Inc
Overview
Mission
Belev echad is an international nonprofit dedicated to restoring the wounded men and women of the idf back to life through physical, medical, legal, emotional, and financial support. Our extensive therapies and programs help the soldiers recover and transition back into a meaningful life without limits. We support them and their families every step of the way through what can be a challenging journey, ensuring they are never alone.
What it reported doing in 2024
We provided wounded idf soldiers with lifesaving support in order to restore them to life. This includes advanced medical treatments, world- class prosthetics, experimental treatments, innovative and ongoing therapies, career counseling, mentoring, job placement, legal & health advocacy, college scholarships, financial & physical, spiritual and mental support. We also offer restorative trips in helping soldiers heal away from their everyday traumas, pain and treatments. These trips also give wounded soldiers the opportunity to bond with the community which helps rehabilitate them further as they're embraced in helping create lifelong relationships. The soldiers are also given the opportunity to tour college campuses to share their stories of transformation helping them heal, while engaging the students, thus raising the awareness of israel and the idf.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811569698
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2128312770
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $233K · 12 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 annual filings from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- RABBI URIEL VIGLER (PRESIDENT): $232,937 total reported compensation
- ALEXANDRA L TUCHMAN (CHIEF DEVELO): $216,074 total reported compensation
- BAS SHEVA VIGLER (BOARD MEMBER): $145,192 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.