Adamah
Legal name: Hazon Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131623922
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Reisterstown, MD, US
- Phone
- 212.644.2332
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $779,694
- Expenses
- $640,454
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAKIR MANELA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- RICHARD SLUTZKY (IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR)
- JESSICA HALLER (VICE CHAIR)
- MARINA LEWIN (CHAIR)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Adamah connects people and planet in Jewish communities, inspiring climate action and environmental stewardship.
What it reported doing in 2023
Hazon is building a movement that strengthens jewish life and contributes to a more environmentally sustainable world for all. National programs include a diverse range of programs, educational resources, and tools that enable communities and individuals to achieve their goals of leading more sustainably. At hazon we believe in two fundamental truths: we are in a global climate crisis and jewish tradition compels us to respond.isabella freedman is hazon's retreat center. Programs include immersive-intensive-inclusive multi-day retreats, holidays, workshops, conferences, festivals, and vacations. It is also the site of the adamah farming fellowship. These programs encourage people to make a difference in the world, and in the process enable them to renew and reframe their own jewish journeys. Individuals, families, and communities make a journey to experience a judaism that connects with their passions - and they return home transformed: refreshed, inspired, and with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility for a sustainable future in the jewish community and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.7%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 31.7%; rating input score 32
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 8 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 26.7% of revenue deployed · 31.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $203K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2011 to 2023
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.