Lev Echad Houston
Legal name: Lev Echad
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871237552
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5136520444
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,000
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
People named in this filing
- penina medetsky (fonder)
- heather arnow (founder)
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
Lev Echad was created as a generalized chesed initiative to provide medical, financial, emotional, or practical support—short- and long-term—for community members and visitors in distress in Houston. After having handled hundreds of requests for assistance from Houston residents, potential Houston residents and out of town families temporarily in Houston for medical care, Lev Echad was created. Lev Echad was established in 2020 with the support and encouragement of the Rabbinic leaders in Houston. We developed an informal network of people in the greater Jewish community who we counted on to help others in their times of need. Our Clients Say’s, As the number of requests for services has significantly increased as word of mouth directed people to us, we decided to formalize as an organization dedicated to provide help where we could. Lev Echad was created as a generalized chesed...
What it reported doing in 2024
Meals provided
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -50% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.