Jewish Rostov
Legal name: Jewish Community of Rostov
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815365022
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, Russia
- Phone
- 3239362777
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $314,943
- Expenses
- $378,619
- Assets
- $1,227,308
- Liabilities
- $43,288
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHAIM DANZINGER (President)
People named in this filing
- YAAKOV ASCHER (Treasurer)
- SHMUEL BRUMMEL (Secretary)
- CHAIM DANZINGER (President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Learn about what drives us every day To provide for the material and spiritual needs of every Jew living in Rostov and surrounding areas. We are honoring their** legacy**and their refusal to relinquish their** heritage**. We are providing comfort,** bringing joy**, nurturing souls, and** building generations**. Today, with a thriving synagogue, one of the most active youth groups in Russia, a Jewish day school, an overnight camp, humanitarian aid services, support for holocaust survivors, a dynamic women's club, and new programs every year, the Danzinger family is as committed as ever to their mission. “We came to Rostov to inspire the Jews living here who have made such tremendous self-sacrifice to remain Jewish,” says Rabbi Danzinger. “But more than we’ve inspired the local Jews, the local Jews have inspired us.” “More than we’ve inspired them, the local Jews have inspired us.”.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jewish Community of Rostov operates a preschool for small children, a day school, youth groups, women's groups, seniors clubs, a soup kitchen, synagogues and centers for higher learning. Other activities included an expanded overnight camp, a family holiday club, a Sunday extended study program for boys and a Jewish music group.It also provides humanitarian aid for indigents from all backgrounds and faiths.Underlying these achievements is a spirit of community: education, friendship, a sense of belonging and deeper Jewish identity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 94.5%; rating input score 95; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: -20.2%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.24; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $336K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.