Skilled Volunteers for Israel
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271761653
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6084690458
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,522
- Expenses
- $99,861
- Assets
- $133,998
- Liabilities
- $285
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDY KLEPPEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JUDY KLEPPEL (PRESIDENT)
- DON LEBOWITZ (TREASURER)
- MARLA GAMORAN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Skilled volunteers for israel's mission is to connect the wisdom and experience of jewish professionals, primarily retirees with societal needs in israel, working with israeli nonprofits and educational organizations. We accomplish this mission through our flagship program, english b'yachad (english together) which focuses on english improvement for israeli adults from israeli communities of need. The program opens pathways to new opportunities through the connections between volunteers and israeli participants and engages volunteers in meaningful mentorship roles. In 2025, english b'yachad made 236 matches.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our flagship program, english b'yachad, pairs israeli adults seeking to improve their english to advance professionally with north american professionals, many of whom are retired. The program opens pathways to new opportunities through the connections between volunteers and israeli participants and engages volunteers in meaningful mentorship roles. In 2025 english b'yachad made 236 matches.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 89.2%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 89.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $89K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.