National Association of Professors of Hebrew
Legal name: National Association of Professors of Hebrew Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510178655
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Henderson, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9192152292
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,171
- Expenses
- $55,274
- Assets
- $23,090
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Grumberg (President)
- Pamela Barmash (Vice President)
- Ilana Szobel (Vice President)
- Esther Raizen (Executive Vice President)
- Shiri Goren (Executive Vice President (new))
People named in this filing
- Karen Grumberg (President)
- Pamela Barmash (Vice President)
- Ilana Szobel (Vice President)
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
NAPH Mission:** Fostering scholarship and academic teaching Hebrew language, literature and culture in institutions of higher learning. Founded in 1950, The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and academic teaching Hebrew language, literature and culture of all periods, from the biblical era to the immediate present. Membership consists of Hebrew scholars, teachers and graduate students in universities, colleges and seminaries all over the world. NAPH convenes an annual International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture. It also organizes a series of sessions at the annual conference of the Society for Biblical L.
What it reported doing in 2025
Fall Conference on Biblical Studies (with SBL), International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.2%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 62.1%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 56.2% of revenue deployed · 62.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.