Friends of Talmudic Studies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161570830
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,200
- Expenses
- $121,206
- Assets
- $155,064
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SOLOMON A SUTTON (President)
- ISAAC KATS (Vice President)
- KAREN NAGGAR (Vice President)
- MATITIA CHARBIT (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SOLOMON A SUTTON (President)
- ISAAC KATS (Vice President)
- KAREN NAGGAR (Vice President)
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
Support of talmudic studies yeshivas yad mordechai and students primarily in france and israel as well as in the united states
What it reported doing in 2025
Support and maintenance of jewish religious schools and other exempt institutions in the u.s., france and israel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 54; 54th 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: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.