Tulane Hillel
Legal name: Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 726031116
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- (504) 866-7060
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,488,102
- Expenses
- $1,488,068
- Assets
- $4,233,846
- Liabilities
- $40,787
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY BRANDT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MATT DEITCH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SHELLEY FREED (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR): $125,216 total reported compensation
- GARY BRANDT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $125,186 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tulane hillel serves as a jewish resource on the tulane university campus in new orleans. Tulane hillel creates a radically inclusive community, develops students' leadership, and encourages curiosity through our jewish values.
What it reported doing in 2024
Israel - tulane hillel's israel programs provide students with opportunities to engage with israel through education, culture, and dialogue. Programming includes educational events, guest speakers, and cultural experiences that explore israeli society, history, and contemporary issues. These programs support students in developing an informed and meaningful connection to israel while fostering respectful discussion across diverse perspectives. Israel engagement is integrated into hillel's broader mission of supporting jewish student life and campus community building.
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.
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: 93
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 48.1%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 96%; rating input score 96; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 48.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $715K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 20 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $113K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.