Hatzolah Air

Legal name: Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823869756
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2023
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
Location
Kew Gardens, NY, US
Phone
+1-321-428-9247
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,509,962
Expenses
$8,750,752
Assets
$8,767,818
Liabilities
$4,245,122

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELI ROWE (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR, & CEO)
  • DR AVISHAI NEUMAN (VICE PRESIDENT & CMO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JACKY GROSS (PILOT): $197,938 total reported compensation
  • JEAN PAUL CHACUR (PILOT): $109,800 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Hatzolah Air is dedicated to providing emergency medical air transport services to individuals in urgent need. With a mission to save lives and provide critical medical transport, Hatzolah Air is supported by a network of dedicated volunteers and generous donors.

What it reported doing in 2023

To focus on facilitating, funding and arranging local, national and worldwide air transportation for a wide array of medical, urgent, emergent, compassion and humanitarian/disaster relief and other charitable needs, primarily serving or working in conjunction with, jewish communities and charities worldwide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 62
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.3%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $97.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • 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; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 35.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 41.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 58% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 59.3% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $198K · 7 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $323K reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.