Collective Kindness
Legal name: Collective Kindness Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932213288
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7733185387
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $988,947
- Expenses
- $738,911
- Assets
- $259,817
- Liabilities
- $255
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHALOM GOODMAN (CEO)
- BORUCH L BARTFIELD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SHALOM GOODMAN (CEO): $90,245 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Collective Kindness assists Jewish families from all backgrounds to get back on their feet by achieving long-term emotional and financial stability, through CK and a growing family of specialized programs, providing a hand-up that empowers families to take charge of their own lives and futures. Leverages her background in therapy and education to provide empathetic support to Jewish families at intake. Her clinical-counseling foundation helps her identify each family's unique needs and design tailored paths forward. Rabbi Yossi Katzman Lead Case Manager & Shluchim Thrive Director. Directs our Shluchim Thrive initiative as a Shliach himself. Serves as Principal of EAST Academy in Brooklyn. His dual perspective as educator and community leader shapes how he supports fellow Shluchim. Mordy Richler Kosher Debt Help Lead.
What it reported doing in 2025
COACHING & COUNSELING The organization provides individualized coaching and counseling services to individuals and families experiencing financial stress or personal hardship. Services include structured goal-setting, budgeting guidance, crisis planning, and accountability support designed to promote long-term financial stability and personal well-being. Participants are typically low- to moderate-income individuals facing financial instability or transitional life circumstances. The program emphasizes education, behavior change, and sustainable financial practices to help participants achieve greater independence and stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 21
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.9%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 69.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 185.9% per year; rating input score 100; 100th 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: 55.9% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $553K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.