Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813052620
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL, USA
- Phone
- 2034790065
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,459
- Expenses
- $77,125
- Assets
- $157,635
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dan Oren (President)
People named in this filing
- Dan Oren (President)
- Herbert Block (Board Member)
- Gideon Taylor (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
At Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FJHP), we partner with descendants, communities, and organizations to restore, protect, and honor Jewish cemeteries and heritage sites across Poland—reconnecting families with history, memory with place, and compassion with action. Our primary mission is engaging descendants and other supporters to protect and commemorate the surviving sites (e.g., cemeteries and synagogues) and monuments of Jewish cultural heritage in Poland. A major beneficiary of our work is the Poland-based "Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland", also known as FODŻ. Our Mission Our primary mission is engaging descendants and other supporters to protect and commemorate the surviving sites (e.g., cemeteries and synagogues) and monuments of Jewish cultural heritage in Poland.
What it reported doing in 2025
We supported the day-to-day work of the Warsaw-based NGO Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, allowing the organization to survey abandoned Jewish cemeteries and synagogues in Poland and their work with other local Polish non-profit organizations to clean and restore those cemeteries. Specific cemeteries where major cleaning or monument construction or restoration occurred included those in Brzeszko, Kaluszyn, Krynki, Ciechanow, Przasnysz, Krosniewice, and Nowogrod.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 7
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.8%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 8
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 5.8% of revenue deployed · 8.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.