The Brownstone Experience Foundatio

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270378472
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Lawrence, NY, USA
Phone
7185982677
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.
Affiliation
Judaism

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,208,593
Expenses
$1,257,455
Assets
$238,330
Liabilities
$574,650

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MORDECHAI SUCHARD (PRESIDENT/ D)

People named in this filing

  • MORDECHAI SUCHARD (PRESIDENT/ D)
  • DAVID GREENBLATT (SECRETARY/DI)
  • SHLOIMY TAUBER (TREASURER/DI)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The brownstone experience foundation is a not-for-profit voluntary organization whose primary purpose is to introduce jewish education and raise jewish awareness and history to unaffiliated jewish collegiates and young professionals from across the united states, using New York city as its classroom

What it reported doing in 2024

The brownstone experience's is a nonprofit organization bringing together unaffiliated jewish collegiate and young professionals from all backgrounds and affiliations and using New York city as an experiential classroom. Our mission is to empower young men and women to shape and strengthen their own jewish identities, and become innovators and leaders committed to serving their jewish communities. Using New York city and its attractions as the drawing card, participants partake in the city's rich and vibrant jewish life, and its historical and cultural treasures. Through the many different programs that the brownstone offers, participants are able to interact with each other and with program leaders in an environment of total immersion of learning. Metro trips offers participants 10 days of "immersion experience" where jewish issues and history are explored. Leadership weekend retreats offer participants a condensed, but powerful version of metro trips. We also offer year-round classes and social programs. City trips and city weekend trips take 50 young jewish adults to the middle of New York city, which represents a city shaped by immigrants of various cultural back rounds. Few groups have left their mark as indelibly as the jewish immigrants that came to the shores of New York. Participants explore New York's cultural and historical treasures and delve into issues of jewish identity and heritage. Most weekends are themed with jewish identity and experience the holy weekend with shabbat experience that teaches the sacred and holy day of the sabbath. The professional educators use the most innovative methods to teach and help the young adults explore their jewish culture and help them through their journey to educate themselves. The interaction with very prominent people including top jewish professionals, philanthropists, spiritual leaders, leading business persons, well known figures in the arts and culture and hands on interactions with the many large jewish charity organizations, (met council, f.e.g.s., welfare programs of the uja organization), will enable the young adults to learn and educate themselves on various different levels and ultimately lead them to chose to expand their jewish identity and enhance the lives of others.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 73% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.7%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.41; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.7% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.