Kesher Schools

Legal name: Kesher Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
043160526
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Cambridge, MA, USA
Phone
6175760830
Rating
34
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$694
Expenses
$57,034
Assets
$35,937
Liabilities
$190,212

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • JONATHAN LIVNY (CHAIRMAN)
  • JONATHAN SCHWARTZ (SECRETARY/CLERK)
  • LINDA ECHT (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Kesher Schools previously provided preschool childcare and after-school Jewish and Hebrew education for children, but it has suspended those offerings and is not accepting new enrollments as it shuts down operations and plans to fully dissolve in fiscal year 2026.

What it reported doing in 2024

Kesher provided an after school jewish and hebrew education for children who are five years and up and a daily childcare preschool for children from age two years and nine months to five years old. Kesher is in the process of shutting down operations and plans to fully dissolve the organization in fiscal year 2026.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8,118.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.29; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.