Jewish Heritage Programs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133780385
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Phone
- (215) 746-6105
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,246,483
- Expenses
- $1,209,081
- Assets
- $104,958
- Liabilities
- $391,081
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RABBI MENACHEM SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RABBI MENACHEM SCHMIDT (PRESIDENT)
- EPHRAIM LEVIN (TREASURER)
- STEVE MILLER (SECRETARY)
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
To engage with and energize individuals not normally involved in Jewish communal activities, through peer-to-peer programming. JHP inspires college students to participate in activities that celebrate Jewish pride and tradition. It helps each individual understand their own ability to have an impact in making the world a better place.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization sponsors jewish related events for college students and graduates, who themselves host the events and spread jewish ideas and values to their peers. Examples of the events include meals on religious and cultural holidays such as shabbat dinners on friday nights and the first night seder for passover.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 47%; rating input score 47
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th 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: 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.73; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 47% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $568K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.