Yad Ezra V'shulamit C/o Joseph Rivani
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460477228
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2133650005
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,357,961
- Expenses
- $4,341,322
- Assets
- $166,180
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- ISAAC BERGER (DIRECTOR)
- MORDECHAI ELMALECH (DIRECTOR)
- ARIEL S LORY ARYEH LURIE (DIRECTOR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yad ezra v'shulamit's mission is to provide over 300,000 people in israel with food and basic supplies for those living in poverty by distributing 12,000 weekly food baskets. With a focus on children we try to ensure that hundreds of under-privileged children receive a hot lunch daily, help with their homework, tutoring, therapies, basic clothes and shoes and even participation in a summer camp to help them break out of the cycle of poverty. The organization serves children, widows, orphans, needy families, single parent families, holocaust survivors, handicapped, new immigrants and anyone who needs a helping hand. Poverty does not discriminate and neither does yad ezra v'shulamit. The organization tries to provide food and other assistance to anyone who needs help.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides grants to the israeli non-profit yad ezra v'shulamit which is the largest distributor of food baskets in israel distributing 12,000 weekly food baskets and vouchers in 93 distribution points throughout the country. Over 50,000 food baskets and food coupons are given for rosh hashanah and passover to israel's neediest families. Food baskets include chicken, rice, noodles, fruits, vegetables, canned goods, milk products and various other products (depending on the in-kind donations received). Beneficiaries are impoverished people such as holocaust survivors, widows, orphans, single parent families, families with a disabled parent, the elderly, new immigrants, etc. Yad ezra v'shulamit supports 1500 widows and their orphans with weekly food baskets and monthly food vouchers throughout israel to make their lives more bearable. Yad ezra v'shulamit delivers over a thousand cans of baby formula and diapers each month to hundreds of mothers and single parent families in desperate need of help. Yad ezra v'shulamit's children centers give hope for a better future to hundreds of impoverished children in israel, including hope for breaking the cycle of poverty, one child at a time. The organization provides a daily hot lunch (usually the children's only hot meal for the day), tutoring, emotional support through art, music, and animal therapies and a fun summer camp. Daily hot lunches are delivered to the homes of hundreds of needy children in jerusalem. Every year, the organization delivers thousands of school supplies, backpacks and winter gear (coats, boots, sweaters, heaters, blankets etc.) to needy children and their families. Yad ezra v'shulamit delivers food-filled trucks to needy families in war-torn cities. Over 100 poor ethiopian-israeli families in jerusalem receive food baskets, after-school activities and other support to help them break out of the poverty cycle. Yad ezra v'shulamit helps hundreds of poor and orphans. Yad ezra v'shulamit is recognized by the local israeli tax authorities as tax-exempt.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.