Volunteers for Israel
Legal name: Volunteers for Israel Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133143219
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 310.738.0748
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Exchange, N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,220
- Expenses
- $214,865
- Assets
- $259,574
- Liabilities
- $68,541
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lemor Warzman (President)
- Barry Stein (Executive Vice President)
- Steven Plotkin (Vice President, Special Programs)
- Norman Weingart (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lemor Warzman (President)
- Barry Stein (Executive Vice President)
- Steven Plotkin (Vice President, Special Programs)
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
Volunteers for Israel’s mission is to connect English speakers to Israel through volunteer service. We achieve this goal by partnering with Israeli organizations that enable volunteers to work side-by-side with Israelis. We promote solidarity and goodwill among Israelis, American Jews, and other friends of Israel. No matter the task, VFI’s focus is always to lend a hand and to assure Israel that she does not stand alone.
What it reported doing in 2025
Offer 9 to 18 day programs for Americans who desire to participate in various volunteer opportunities in Israel, combined with educational touring and cultural exchange. In 2025 64 people participated in 8 different programs. We also offer a weekly on-line educational discussion group via Zoom with average attendance of over 100.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.21; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $153K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.