Friends of Israel Scouts Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133843506
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2123908130
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Exchange, N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,328,690
- Expenses
- $11,607,935
- Assets
- $7,685,267
- Liabilities
- $3,106,266
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RONNY URMAN (PRESIDENT)
- EFRAT LICHTMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- RONNY URMAN (PRESIDENT)
- ISAAC BLACHOR (SECRETARY)
- SIGAL URMAN (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's purpose includes offering children an opportunity to participate in the israeli scout movement in accordance with the purposes of the programs conducted by the israeli scout federation. In addition, the organization seeks to enlighten its members to their relationship with the state of israel. Together with the israeli scouts and the jewish agency for israel, they promote seasonal programs in both the united states of america and israel.
What it reported doing in 2024
Caravan & delegation: students from israel travel throughout the us performing israeli music and dance. Shnat sherut program: a community service of volunteering in a development town/underprivileged neighborhood in israel.israel summer program: students travel to israel for the summer
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $243.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.