Częstochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group
Legal name: Czestochowa Radomsko Area Research Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550837852
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Springfield, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9373902403
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,140
- Expenses
- $50,121
- Assets
- $126,115
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Kazez (President)
People named in this filing
- Daniel Kazez (President)
- Alise Kermisch (Board member)
- David Rose (Board member)
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
CRARG finds, translates, and makes searchable archival records from the late 1700s through the 1940s for Jews who lived in Poland towns, including Holocaust-era records. Historical information on towns is drawn from _Encyclopedia Judaica_ (Jerusalem, Israel: Macmillan, 1978), Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; _The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust_ (New York: New York University Press, 2001); _The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945_ (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2018); _Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Poland_ (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976); and several town Yizkor books. For their help with translating town histories, CRARG thanks Gloria Berkenstat Freund (Yiddish) and Udi Cain (Hebrew). HomeHolocaust-Era DatabasePre-Holocaust DatabaseAbout CRA.
What it reported doing in 2025
Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group (CRARG) finds and translates archival records for Jews who lived in our area of Poland, and makes those records searchable (1) by surname (exact match, sounds like, start certain letters, or with wildcard letters anywhere in a name) (2) coupled by additional text, such as given name or city or year of birth, and with the possibility of Boolean searching and searching with Latin, Cyrillic, or Hebrew characters. Our success is in our numbers. For 2025: 284,123 views and searches, 11,615 users. Among all of our data, we have more than 1,950 completed projects and a total of well over 2.0 million records.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.