Center Makor
Legal name: Jewish Educational and Cultural Centermakor Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651251537
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brookline, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6177714870
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,019
- Expenses
- $155,970
- Assets
- $12,897
- Liabilities
- $13,066
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VLADIMIR FOYGELMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VLADIMIR FOYGELMAN (PRESIDENT)
- LILIANA GLIK (TREASURER)
- JULIA GOLDBERG (CLERK)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Welcome to Center Makor, a vibrant hub dedicated to preserving and celebrating Jewish heritage in the heart of Brookline and the Greater Boston area. Our mission is to enrich the community through the lens of Jewish culture, arts, and educational excellence. The Mission of the Center Makor is to promote Jewish education and culture — primarily, though not exclusively, among Jews from the Former Soviet Union — and to combat antisemitism by fostering community integration, cultural exchange, and mutual understanding among diverse ethnic and immigrant communities in Greater Boston. Makor Events. is to promote Jewish education and culture — primarily, though not exclusively, among Jews from the Former Soviet Union — and to combat antisemitism by fostering community integration, cultural exchange, and mutual understanding among diverse ethnic and immigrant communities in Greater Boston....
What it reported doing in 2025
Support and relief for families in need impacted by the warin ukraine
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.