National Ramah Commission Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136161110
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126788881
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,494,594
- Expenses
- $16,953,533
- Assets
- $15,542,193
- Liabilities
- $3,184,041
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARNIE HARRIS (PRESIDENT)
- AMY SKOPP COOPER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY SKOPP COOPER (CEO): $342,891 total reported compensation
- RABBI AMIEL HERSH (DIRECTOR, RAMAH DAY CAMP): $236,329 total reported compensation
- YITZI HARTMAN (DIRECTOR, RAMAH CANADA): $194,449 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The national ramah commission (nrc) is the central coordinating, convening, and catalyzing body of the ramah camping movement. The nrc works with our movement's professional and lay leadership to preserve, strengthen, and build on the religious, educational, programmatic, health, and safety pillars that are at the core of ramah's mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
The national ramah commission (nrc) is the central coordinating, convening, and catalyzing body of the ramah camping movement. The nrc works withour movements professional and lay leadership to preserve, stregthen, and build on the religious, educational, programmatic, health and safety pillars that are at the core of ramah's mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.3%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $343K · 27 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 16 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.