B'nai B'rith Housing
Legal name: B'nai B'rith Iii Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043562784
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brighton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6172778932
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Low-Income & Subsidized Rental Housing
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $790,156
- Expenses
- $729,955
- Assets
- $3,461,893
- Liabilities
- $5,891,558
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BURT GESSERMAN (PRESIDENT)
- MARVIN SIFLINGER (PRESIDENT EMERITUS (UNTIL 2025))
- SUSAN L GITTELMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SUSAN L GITTELMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $422,513 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are B'nai B'rith Housing (BBH) a regional nonprofit housing developer whose mission is to ease the housing crisis in the Greater Boston area. Our Real Estate Council of Advisors is made up of some of Greater Boston’s most distinguished real estate development leaders who donate their time and support to help us advance our mission. Picture of members of B'nai B'rith's Real estate Council Image of Lawrence Curtis and Gilbert Winn of WinnCompanies, members of B'nai B'rith's Real Estate Council of Advisors. CHAIRMAN –Edward Zuker** Chestnut Hill Realty. What We Do We are B’nai B’rith Housing (BBH) a regional nonprofit housing developer whose mission is to ease the housing crisis in the Greater Boston area.** We work with cities and towns to create economically viable, affordable housing options which respond to the needs and aspirations of each community. Our housing, both rental and...
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide elderly or disabled persons with housing facilities multi-family, senior citizens apartment complex in brighton, Massachusetts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.74; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.7; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $655K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $423K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
- 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.