Kesher
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873261266
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Southfield, MI, USA
- Phone
- 3474520369
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,529
- Expenses
- $58,920
- Assets
- $114,743
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- IDA EIS (PRESIDENT, T)
- GITTEL KANNER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- IDA EIS (PRESIDENT, T)
- GITTEL KANNER (PRESIDENT)
- CHAYA SHAINDEL RUBIN (DIRECTOR)
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
Kesher is dedicated towards improving the emotional wellbeing of school aged girls called "little sisters", aged 6-17, by carefully matching them with a dedicated "big sister" volunteer, typically aged 19-25. The two spend meaningful time together on a weekly basis and cultivate a deep bond based on shared interests, safety, and security.
What it reported doing in 2025
Served over 160 girls through a mentoring program, with activities that fostered a bond between mentors and mentees, along with volunteer training and appreciation events.
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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.3%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
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: 57.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.3% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.