Core
Legal name: Core Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831710975
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Phone
- 7207323636
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $649,863
- Expenses
- $710,856
- Assets
- $7,996
- Liabilities
- $43,766
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALIZA BULOW (FOUNDING DIRECTOR / CEO)
- DIANA MELNICK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALIZA BULOW (FOUNDING DIRECTOR / CEO): $34,000 total reported compensation
- ELISHEVA HOFFMAN (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $23,335 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
To achieve the organization's mission, core has created a 2-year training program for core mentors and counselors, designed to create more access points to guidance and counsel for women. The first cohort has graduated and the second cohort is set to begin. The organization has created networking platforms and professional development for close to 1,800 women from 16 countries. The organization also sponsors trips, events, weekends, meetings, and discussions with women leaders worldwide.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 58.3%; rating input score 58
- 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: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.47; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 55.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -70.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th 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: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 58.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $415K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $34K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.