JewBelong
Legal name: Jewbelong Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813739789
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9734644975
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,544,082
- Expenses
- $5,112,273
- Assets
- $8,834,498
- Liabilities
- $152,122
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACY STUART (CO-PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEE)
- MARGERY ARCHIE GOTTESMAN (CO-PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEE)
Highest reported compensation
- STACY STUART (CO-PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEE): $581,710 total reported compensation
- STEVEN GOODWIN (SENIOR DIGITAL DESIGNER): $201,425 total reported compensation
- CARRIE HALL (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT): $176,033 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JewBelong welcomes people to Judaism with Jewish readings and rituals through straightforward explanations—designed to help people find warmth, meaning, and connection on their Jewish journey. Discover Israeli creators and Jewish organizations doing meaningful work—and find ways to support them. JewBelong Merch Made in Israel Shop. Have you ever asked yourself, “Why be Jewish?” That’s where JewBelong comes in. We provide straightforward explanations, readings and rituals to help warm your heart. Have you ever asked yourself, “Why be Jewish?” Us too! The short answer is that Judaism is a somewhat easy and time-tested (like 5,000+ years) way to add meaning and connection to your life. But yeah, sometimes Judaism can be more complicated than your last girlfriend. That’s where JewBelong comes in. Think of us as the friendly, kinda funny kid from your geometry class who explained in...
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided inspiration and awareness to targeted audiences through maintaining the website and social media accounts, which remains the heart of our brand.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- 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 few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 66.5%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 66.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $582K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 53/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.