Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133193296
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Hackensack, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9177214664
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $203,662
- Expenses
- $211,934
- Assets
- $25,927
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARRY MAHLER (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT KATZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT KATZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $72,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
What it reported doing in 2025
The office in the u.s. Serves to raise funds for the jewish institute for the blind in jerusalem (beit chinuch ivrim). The institute has been in existence for over 120 years and serves hundreds of visually impaired children, young adults and adults across israel. The vision is to (a) redefine blindess as a challenge that can be overcome, and (b) cultivate a world of equality, not just tolerance or inclusivity, in which all blind people can be equal, active members and participants of society. Programs include a broad array of enriching activities, supportive services as well as vocational training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 65% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 53
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.