Limmud New York
Legal name: Limmud Ny
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562428283
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- (646) 926-0760
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,566
- Expenses
- $37,997
- Assets
- $25,083
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN RADKOWSKY (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JULIE HIRSCHFELD (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KAREN RADKOWSKY (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JULIE HIRSCHFELD (CO-PRESIDENT)
- NEAL TWERSKY (SECRETARY)
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
Limmud is a global grassroots movement that celebrates Jewish life and learning. Limmud began in the United Kingdom in 1980, with an annual Festival of Learning which now attracts more than 1,500 participants. The flagship Limmud serves as a model and inspiration for over 90 Limmud communities across the world – from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Mumbai to Moldova, New York to the Netherlands and Seattle to Sydney. All Limmud events are volunteer-led and driven. This teamwork contributes to the camaraderie and active ownership which energize each event and provides opportunities for volunteers to develop skills that can enrich their personal, communal, or professional lives. Limmud Values.
What it reported doing in 2024
To develop, organize, and deliver pluralisticmultigenerational jewish learning opportunities includingconferences, meetings and other events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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. 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: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.2%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 50.4%; rating input score 50
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: 6.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 47.2% of revenue deployed · 50.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.