Yam Hachesed
Legal name: American Friends of Yam Hachesed
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883042900
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Jerusalem, NJ, Israel
- Phone
- +972-53-71-71-358
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,133
- Expenses
- $26,281
- Assets
- $21,548
- Liabilities
- $2,801
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ABRAHAM BENHAIM (President)
People named in this filing
- ABRAHAM BENHAIM (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yam Hachesed is a non-profit dedicated to offering vital aid and resources to Jewish girls and families facing adversity, empowering each individual to lead fulfilling, self-sufficient lives and contribute to the growth of resilient Jewish communities. Yam Hachesed envisions a future where every Jewish youth in Israel has access to the support needed to fulfill their potential. We aim to transform create an atmosphere , where every girl can thrive with the necessary resources and guidance. Through our efforts, we seek to build a stronger, more resilient community where everyone can contribute positively. Our Mission Yam Hachesed empowers Jewish youth from underprivileged backgrounds in Israel through education, social guidance, and financial assistance. Focused on aiding Jewish girls facing challenges, we strive to overcome their challenges and nurture them into fulfilled and...
What it reported doing in 2025
Empowers Jewish youth from underprivileged backgrounds through education, social guidance, and financial assistance. Focused on aiding Jewish girls facing challenges, we strive to overcome their challenges and nurture them into fulfilled and successful members of society.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.2%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -15% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.