Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation
Legal name: The Rhodes Jewish Historical Founda
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911779457
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Phone
- (310) 889-4260
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,647
- Expenses
- $85,958
- Assets
- $29,397
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARON HASSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ARON HASSON (PRESIDENT)
- SIMON SORIANO (SECRETARY/CF)
- KRISTINE JARO (COORDINATOR)
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
To preserve the unique history of the Jews of Rhodes by providing information to visitors and descendants. Being a “keeper of memory,” the RJHF continues to fulfill archival and collaborative projects involving research, artifact collection and reacquisition, document transliteration and translation, publication, and traveling exhibitions. These crucial endeavors are made possible thanks to the donations and support of individuals like you, who believe in preserving the Rhodes Jewish heritage for the future. With the campaign and efforts to preserve the Rhodes Jewish heritage, between 1997 and 2008, the Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation (RJHF), in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Rhodes (JCR), fulfilled the restoration and expansion project by converting the Kahal Shalom synagogue’s vacant women’s prayer rooms into a museum and the restoration of the ancient tombstones of...
What it reported doing in 2025
Collecting artifacts and displaying the artifacts to preserve the unique history of the jews of rhodes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.