Synagogue Connect
Legal name: Synagogue Connect Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813746475
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Merrick, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5168732000
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,000
- Expenses
- $650
- Assets
- $3,749
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RABBI RONALD BROWN (PRESIDENT)
- TSPORA BROWN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RABBI RONALD BROWN (PRESIDENT)
- TSPORA BROWN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RABBI CHARLES KLEIN (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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Synagogue Connect reaches unaffiliated college students and reconnects them to synagogue communities for High Holiday services, including via participating synagogues that may open doors at no cost and offer virtual services. In addition to connecting college students to Synagogues, Synagogue Connect aims to connect Synagogues congregants to the local Jewish campus community. We hope to help serve as a pipeline to insure congregants’ children get and stay involved with campus Jewish life, and also have community members attend Jewish campus events. If you wish to have your synagogue participate in this project please visit our sign up form. Any young adult wishing to attend services will be asked to contact the synagogue beforehand and bring identification for admission. Those requesting virtual services will need to contact the synagogue, provide information (name, email, etc.) for...
What it reported doing in 2020
Advance jewish religion by providing high holiday services at local synagogues for college students
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 67.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.77; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -79.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -59.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -33.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.