Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651059051
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hollywood, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3059442002
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,401,900
- Expenses
- $1,152,916
- Assets
- $984,285
- Liabilities
- $178,430
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEVI FEIGELSTOCK (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- SHOLEY KLEIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHOLEY KLEIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $141,346 total reported compensation
- LEVI FEIGELSTOCK (FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $48,462 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide kosher certification and related Orthodox rabbinical supervision for food service establishments and community needs in South Florida. The ORB (Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties) is South Florida’s most reliable and largest Kosher Agency. Founded in 2000 by Rabbi Lieberman and Rabbi Davis the ORB is the oldest active kosher agency in South Florida. ORB serves as one of the nations largest food service kosher certifiers. The ORB is a proud and longstanding member of AKO (Association of Kosher Organizations) our certified Kosher products are available nationwide.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides kosher certification (hashgacha) services to local restaurants and other food establishments. Services include review of ingredients and suppliers on-site supervision and inspections guidance on kosher compliance issuance and renewal of kosher certifications and responding to compliance questions. Program service revenue consists primarily of certification and supervision fees paid by participating establishments. Program expenses include contractor supervision costs and related administrative and occupancy costs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.