JRI-Poland
Legal name: Jewish Records Indexing-poland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522101869
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Roslyn Heights, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5164845708
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $338,055
- Expenses
- $270,518
- Assets
- $1,390,358
- Liabilities
- $15,855
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robinn Magid (President)
- Hadassah C Lipsius (Vice President)
- Howard Zakai (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Robinn Magid (President)
- Hadassah C Lipsius (Vice President)
- Howard Zakai (Vice 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JRI-Poland is a collective of global volunteers seeking out a shared Jewish history and safeguarding it by building the largest online database of Jewish vital and other records, and improving researcher tools so records and the stories they tell remain accessible forever. What is JRI-Poland’s mission? As set forth more fully in the JRI-Poland Mission Statement, JRI-Poland is a collective of global volunteers with a common goal – seeking out a shared history and safeguarding it. We believe that the details in records and the stories they tell about our ancestors must be accessible in a form that will remain available forever. To serve this mission, we continue to build the largest database of Jewish vital and other records online. We are able to do this because of the commitment and support of hundreds of volunteers and donors. We are also fortunate for generations of town...
What it reported doing in 2025
The project is devised to upgrade JRI-Poland.org through a new website and database: reinvesting in the future to establish dramatic new inter-connectivity between records and researchers. The ground-up rebuild is designed specifically to address the growing needs of both internal management and online users. expenses are net expenditures after capitalizing $184,700 as Internally Developed Software Costs incurred in 2025 and $1,110,700 on a cumulative basis; and $111,070 of amortization. Certain features of the NextGen website went live in April 2022; development is continuing on other features
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.4%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.14; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 59.4% of revenue deployed · 70.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $192K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $192K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.