Cleveland Hillel
Legal name: Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341187022
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, United States
- Phone
- (216) 231-0040
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,314,862
- Expenses
- $1,252,060
- Assets
- $4,905,308
- Liabilities
- $688,123
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Jared Isaacson (Executive Director)
- Jennifer Cohen (President)
- Marc Borstein (Immediate Past President)
Highest reported compensation
- Michael Jared Isaacson (Executive Director): $163,558 total reported compensation
- Kim Littman (Business Director): $72,794 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cultivate innovative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial communities on all our campuses to actively build meaningful Jewish experiences and enhance Jewish pride for young adults throughout their entire college journey. Fulfilling our Mission The mission of our program is to place talented college students in challenging PAID summer internships, and to provide programming that immerses them in Cleveland and encourages them to choose the greater Cleveland area to live, work, and play upon graduation. Program Highlights. The Cleveland Hillel Foundation Summer Internship Program (SIP CLE) is a unique paid summer internship program open to Jewish college students who will be going into their junior or senior year in the fall. If selected and hired, interns spend ten weeks working for local Cleveland employers and participate in innovative programming including exclusive excursions around...
What it reported doing in 2024
Allocations, grants, etc. For charitable, educational and religious purposes. We serve as a campus based jewish student center at case western reserve university and oberlin college. We cultivate jewish life on campus and in the community in ne Ohio through our undergraduate and graduate programming serving 11 area campuses. We offer a paid summer internship program and jcle programming for young jewish professionals and grad students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.92; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $957K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 20 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.