Judaism On Our Own Terms
Legal name: Open Hillel Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813819157
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Brookline, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8477676167
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,783
- Expenses
- $15,537
- Assets
- $23,503
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
People named in this filing
- Eva Ackerman (Chair)
- Jacob Zionts (Treasurer)
- Caroline Morganti (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create and build a network of student-governed and liberation-aligned Jewish communities on campuses across the so-called North American continent.
What it reported doing in 2021
We presented "Setting the New Agenda: A Speaker Series on Anti-Blackness and the Jewish Community" with Jews For Racial & Economic Justice. The series included the following three events: "The Thin Green Line: Israel Advocacy as a Barrier to Black-Jewish Solidarity," "Nostalgia & Reality: Black & Jewish Relationships in the 1960s and Beyond," and "We Keep Each Other Safe: Safety Beyond Policing." A recording for each event was posted publicly on YouTube and remains accessible to all.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 29.7%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 29.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.