Hillel at the University of Rochester
Legal name: Hillel at the University of Rochester Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462532841
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Rochester, NY, United States
- Phone
- 5853143707
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $629,035
- Expenses
- $396,444
- Assets
- $1,065,728
- Liabilities
- $174,257
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE GIVANT (PRESIDENT)
- JOY GETNICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JOY GETNICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $130,204 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enrich the lives of Jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. The Memorial Scrolls Trust has allocated Czech scrolls to synagogues and organizations around the world. The scrolls are never sold or donated but allocated on loan. Communities that close or merge with other Czech scroll-holder communities are obliged to return their scroll to the Trust. We are so grateful to have this meaningful and historic scroll as part of our Hillel at the University of Rochester community. It is a reminder of how fortunate we are to live freely and safely as Jews, and of the importance of celebrating and perpetuating Jewish traditions, culture, and heritage long into the future. Subscribe to our mailing list Support our students.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide supporting services to students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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 - 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: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.4%; rating input score 39
- Program expense ratio: 58.9%; rating input score 59
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 37%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 39.4% of revenue deployed · 58.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $233K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.