Kosher Miami
Legal name: The Vaad Hakashrus of Miami-dade Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562423634
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Miami, FL, United States
- Phone
- 786-463-9931
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $920,069
- Expenses
- $878,881
- Assets
- $294,417
- Liabilities
- $56,230
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARI HOLLANDER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RABBI MICHAEL SHAFFREN (RABBINIC ADMINISTRATOR): $123,333 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Vaad HaKashrus of Miami-Dade (Kosher Miami) is a non-profit founded to supervise and certify retail establishments and commercial companies that cater to the Kosher consumer, supporting kosher standards in South Florida and anywhere in the United States. The Vaad HaKashrus of Miami-Dade, is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization that was founded in 2002 to supervise and certify retail establishments and commercial companies that cater to the Kosher consumer in the local South Florida area, as well as anywhere in the United States. Donate to Kosher Miami to help with our important work. Kosher Miami adheres to only the strictest standards of Kashrus. Pure Green Sunset Harbour is now open under KDM certification. 1915 Purdy Ave in Miami Beach. 305-763-8585. Offering organic smoothies, acai bowls, cold pressed juices and wellness shots made with high quality, nutrient dense ingredients....
What it reported doing in 2025
During calendar year 2025, kosher miami had contracts with over 180 different establishments to provide kosher supervision and certification services. Thousands of local kosher consuming south Florida residents, as well as thousands of kosher consuming tourists to south Florida, have benefited from the services provided by kosher miami.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $879K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.