Vaad Hakohol of Crown Heights
Legal name: Vaad Hakohol Deschunas Crown Height
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112873163
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Phone
- (718) 771-7000
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $542,767
- Expenses
- $482,048
- Assets
- $263,628
- Liabilities
- $96,568
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- FISHEL BROWNSTEIN (TREASURER)
- YOSEF HACKNER (SECRETARY)
- ZAKI ISSAC TAMIR (CHAIRMAN)
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 Vaad Hakohol of Crown Heights is elected leadership dedicated to supporting the Beis Din, preserving spiritual vitality and communal integrity, and coordinating community advocacy, halachic standards, and communal services for Crown Heights families, shuls, and mosdos. Our Mission is to serve Crown Heights through Torah, unity, and leadership. Black and white photo of a person in a long coat and hat crossing the street at a crosswalk, holding a bag, with a 'Bus Corridor Photo Enforced' sign overhead. Group of men and a boy dressed in formal attire, wearing hats, walking down a narrow stone street. Become a Member Our Mission is to serve Crown Heights through Torah, unity, and leadership.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our organization supports the temporal needs of the three senior rabbis of the crown heights chassidic community. The rabbis hold office hours for consultation every day except saturday. They deliver sermons at every major religious gathering of the community, and they publish religious guides for each major jewish holiday. The rabbis also inspect many food establishments to ensure compliance with the kosher laws.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.1%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 57.1% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $310K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.