Chessed Alaska
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455496252
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Palmer, AK, USA
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,243
- Expenses
- $181,517
- Assets
- $121,427
- Liabilities
- $42,869
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ruthann Crosby (President)
- Jeffrey Hewitt (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Ruthann Crosby (President)
- Jeffrey Hewitt (Vice President)
- Jill Chadbourne (Secretary Treasurer)
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
See schedule O
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided classes in Jewish studies and the Torah: Charitable assistance for those in need of food, clothing or shelter: financial and volunteer support for the Lubavitch Jewish Center
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.