UW Hillel

Legal name: Hillel Foundation University of Wisconsin Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
392035142
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Madison, WI, US
Phone
(608) 256-8361
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,963,350
Expenses
$3,572,447
Assets
$24,264,047
Liabilities
$11,570,143

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GREG STEINBERGER (CEO)
  • ANDREA STEINBERGER (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • GREG STEINBERGER (CEO): $270,119 total reported compensation
  • ANDREA STEINBERGER (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $199,021 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

UW Hillel empowers students to lead, create, and shape Jewish life on campus through student-run organizations and leadership cohorts. & Values UW Hillel, at the Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Life, serves more than 5,000 Jewish students and faculty at University of Wisconsin–Madison. We foster a vibrant and inclusive community where every expression of Jewish life is welcomed and celebrated - religious, cultural, political, traditional, and alternative. At UW Hillel, we enable Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin to have a voice in their community - one that helps them maintain their ties to Judaism and the broader Jewish community. Community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Student program: we provide the space and facility for students to socialize, study, gain leadership skills and coordinate student-led programs while on campus. We provide advisory support for various student groups each year and offer financial support for their programs. This includes social action programming, social programming, education programming, and skill building opportunities. Hillel provides nearly 400 programs and meetings each academic year. In addition, hillel serves as a watchdog to review, monitor and when necessary respond to issues related to campus climate and community relations issues.jewish learning and holidays: there are approximately 5,000 jewish students on the campus. We provide services and meals, and programs related to jewish holidays that are available to all jewish students. Includes staff time, materials and meals. These are conservative and reform style services and include pre and post holiday meals. All other jewish holidays during the academic year are celebrated, staffed and programmed in a similar manner. Shabbat holiday and meals: provide kosher meal program and festive holiday and shabbat meals to students throughout the academic year. We serve nearly 125 students for the weekly friday night shabbat dinner and provide food for events and activities of our student groups throughout the year. Hillel provides nearly 400 programs and meetings each academic year. Food service: hillel runs a kosher cafe to provide quality and often organic and local food that happens to be kosher. We prepare meals for special events that are kosher on the campus and in the community. The cafe is a friendly neighborhood restaurant where students come to study and socialize. It is a key part of our program where students can gather and friendships can be made.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.3%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 51.7%; rating input score 52
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.79; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 55.3% of revenue deployed · 51.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $270K · 23 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 55/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.