Ezra International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911746258
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Melbourne, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3523944673
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,660,718
- Expenses
- $2,382,446
- Assets
- $3,264,825
- Liabilities
- $16,806
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICIA FRAME (PRESIDENT OF BOARD/CEO OF)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICIA FRAME (PRESIDENT OF BOARD/CEO OF): $87,940 total reported compensation
- GARY CRISTOFARO (VP OF BOARD/DIRECTOR OF DE): $64,400 total reported compensation
- JAN FRANS MIDDELHOEK (BOARD DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR OF EZRA NETHERLANDS): $26,645 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of ezra international, inc. Is to build a network of worldwide connections to fulfill a call to do the work of the lord. The agency is dedicated to supporting the return of jewish people to the state of israel (aliyah). Its fivefold mission strives to 1) return jews to israel, 2) provide humanitarian aid, 3) care for the elderly, 4) rescue children and, 5) educate christians about aliyah.
What it reported doing in 2025
Aliyah: provides support in helping jews return to israel by performing and documenting ancestry research to obtain israeli visa's, arrange the transportation to the israeli consulate for visa interviews, help with the paperwork for an international passport, provide food and basic supplies during the months before the departure for israel, and organize support once the move to israel has been made.education: ezra teaches on themes to do with israel, aliyah, jewish culture and customs. Through meetings, written material and media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $67.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 15th 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: -43.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.