Ohel Children's Home and Family Services
Legal name: Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 116078704
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Phone
- (718) 438-0941
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,980,426
- Expenses
- $100,666,685
- Assets
- $105,183,145
- Liabilities
- $55,386,445
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANNETTE RUBIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAY KESTENBAUM (CO-PRESIDENT)
- MEL ZACHTER (CO-PRESIDENT)
- MARVIN HELLMAN (PRESIDENT EMERITUS)
- DAVID MANDEL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID MANDEL (CEO): $557,096 total reported compensation
- HOWARD LORCH (CFO): $373,448 total reported compensation
- ELIEZER BRAZIL (CAMP DIRECTOR): $341,513 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For over half a century, New Yorkers havent had to handle social and emotional challenges alone. Ohel listens with compassion and responds with trusted services. According to Jewish tradition, Abraham and Sarah lived in a tent that was open on all four sides to welcome travelers from all directions. They provided an oasis of nourishment and care in the ancient desert of Canaan. Like Abraham and Sarah’s tent, our doors are open to everyone who needs the support and care we provide. Believe in our mission and want to help? CareersDonateVolunteer. Ohel's member image For over half a century, New Yorkers haven’t had to handle social and emotional challenges alone. Ohel provides transformative social services and mental health services to communities in the New York metropolitan area, across the United States, in Israel, and around the world. Beginning as a small foster care agency for...
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential: beginning 1969 as a New York foster care agency for jewish children, ohel cares for thousands of individuals through a broad range of programs including mental health services and counseling, housing for people with developmental and psychiatric disabilities, geriatric services, domestic violence safe dwellings. Ohel's camp kaylie welcomes children of all abilities to a summer of inclusive fun. Ohel zachter family national trauma center provides crisis response and support for trauma nationwide. Ohel kestenbaum family international children's services provides resilience-building programs to children and schools in New York, across the united states, and around the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 74% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 36 of 36 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $84.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $557K · 50 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.