Vaad Harabonim of MetroWest
Legal name: Vaad Harabonim of Metrowest Nj Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470980644
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Livingston, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9738509144
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,077
- Expenses
- $98,366
- Assets
- $54,138
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RABBI CHAIM MARCUS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RABBI MENDEL SOLOMON (SECRETARY/TR)
- RABBI CHAIM MARCUS (PRESIDENT)
- RABBI ELIEZER ZWICKLER (VICE-PRESIDE)
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
Preserving, promoting and fostering traditional orthodox judaism in accordance with jewish traditions.
What it reported doing in 2025
Inspection and supervision services for the preparation and service of food pursuant to orthodox jewish religious dietary laws, custom and practice at and from kosher establishments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.