Menschwork
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811693943
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 9142601771
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,064
- Expenses
- $60,990
- Assets
- $30,223
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- David Malchman (CoChair)
- Michael Landau (CoChair)
- David Reisman (Vice Chair)
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
Menschwork, Inc. exists for the purpose of developing transformative program models, programs and resources that encourage men to take the bold, next steps in their journeys as empowered Jewish mensches, men of spirit, compassion, integrity, dignity, responsibility and purpose in their families, communities and in the larger world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Thirty-fourth Jewish Men's Retreat, an annual weekend gathering of 80-100 men from the US, Canada and beyond, to share, bond, learn, relax, and connect with their inner-selves an the wonder of existence. Open to men of all backgrounds, many who've been coming for decades. The program is expanding geographically and will likely evolve to more than one gathering each year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.