Repair the World

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364524686
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2012018161
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nonprofit Management
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$13,807,810
Expenses
$11,209,593
Assets
$16,293,317
Liabilities
$653,904

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

30 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CINDY GREENBERG (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CINDY GREENBERG (PRESIDENT & CEO): $413,947 total reported compensation
  • KATHERINE O'BANNON (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $242,134 total reported compensation
  • NAOMI SHANA BLOOM (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $216,399 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Repair the World is the Jewish service movement. We connect Jewish young adults to service and learning rooted in Jewish values—meeting urgent needs like food insecurity, housing, and education while building identity, community, and belonging. Jewish tradition instructs people to “not stand idly” while others undergo hardship. We are obligated to amplify marginalized individual’s voices, listen to our neighbors, and actively participate in helping to address the barriers to realizing one’s full potential to pursue a just world. Jewish wisdom assumes that we live in community with others, including those we may not know or who live under different circumstances than us. When we consider the relationships we build, offer support, and show-up as a collective responsibility, we see the potential of what we can achieve. Repairing the World תיקון עולםtikkun olam.

What it reported doing in 2024

National partnerships and field activation -repair the world strengthens the jewish service movement by partnering with 60+ jewish service alliance organizations, expanding meaningful jewish service around the world. In fy25, repair and jsa partners facilitated 203,441 acts of service and learning (145% of goal, 20% increase over fy24) through 9,110 programs and trainings. Highlights include 299 hillel student engagement interns across 65 campuses leading 49,247 acts of service and learning; 80 jcc professionals in the tzedek fellowship designing jewish service programs for 6,774 participants in 52 cities; and alpha epsilon pi students delivering 37,647 acts of service. In israel, repair launched the first jsa israel service seminar and service matters: israel summit with 24 professionals from 11 organizations, combining service, jewish learning, and leadership development to build the field.the national days of jewish service (ndjs) activates the jewish community to serve at key moments of the year, including the jewish high holidays, the october 7th commemoration, passover, earth day, good deeds day, and yom hashoah. In fy25, across two ndjs activations, repair provided microgrants to dozens of organizations to lead jewish service for their constituents, engaging 26,063 participants worldwide. Through ndjs and year round, 240 young adult michael kay jewish service ambassadors facilitated 471 jewish service programs for their peers. Through these activations, service ambassadors and partner organizations mobilized peers, strengthened local networks, and cultivated a new generation of jewish leaders, completing thousands of acts of service grounded with meaningful jewish learning.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 57
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.2%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 84.4%; rating input score 84; 18th 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 55.2% of revenue deployed · 67.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $414K · 30 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $104K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.