Ahavas Chesed

Legal name: Ahavas Chesed - Love of Kindness Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
113301898
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
Location
Brooklyn, NY, United States
Phone
(718) 221-2424
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Judaism
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$330,154
Expenses
$375,668
Assets
$79,346
Liabilities
$34,166

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AVRAHAM SILVER (President)

People named in this filing

  • AVRAHAM NEW (Director)
  • AVRAHAM SILVER (President)
  • MENDEL AKSELROD (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide communal assistance to individuals experiencing medical and other crisis, including 24/7 medical referrals, transportation, home healthcare support, medical equipment and supplies lending, emergency financial assistance, hot kosher meals, and holiday services in the Brooklyn/NYC area. We will send you once a month news about the next Blood Drive, new Ahavas Chesed programs and recent activities [newsletter] Donate Ahavas Chesed. One of the flagship Ahavas Chesed’s programs is our medical referral line that is manned 24-hours by professional staff answering requests for referrals, guidance, or support. Our team maintains close friendships with prominent physicians and medical centers, keeping up with the latest procedures and medical advances and recommending the best specialists in a given situation. > Our team maintains close friendships with prominent physicians and...

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide communal assistance to individuals experiencing medical and other crisis. More specifically: hospital and home visitations and assistance of the sick and elderly and their families by community volunteers; develop and maintain a list of community volunteers for donating blood and sponsor community blood drives; facilitate the provision of first aid and cpr workshops; assist individuals with referrals to medical specialists; aid to families requiring medical equipment, kosher food, clothing and any necessities required in emergencies; assist families in time of bereavement; analyze and assess communal needs and advocate for new or expanded services; assistance to other religious, charitable, educational and communal institutions with similar programs; to act as an information and referral resource and to do any other act or thing incidental or connected with the forgoing purposes or in advancement thereof.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 69.3%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $174.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 69.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $261K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.