Yiddish Farm
Legal name: Yiddish Farm Educational Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454911451
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New Hampton, NY, United States
- Phone
- 8453605023
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,192
- Expenses
- $56,885
- Assets
- $73,983
- Liabilities
- $91,371
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Warner P Bass (President)
People named in this filing
- Warner P Bass (President)
- Adam Cooper (Secretary)
- James Murray Slater (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a 501(c)3 organization providing experiential outdoor education to Yiddish speaking children in the greater New York area. Since 2012 we have provided experiential outdoor education to thousands of Yiddish speaking children in the greater New York area. Our programming is uniquely presented in a way that is appropriate, engaging and memorable for today's Chassidic youth. Schools, camps and families return to the farm year after year to see our production first hand and learn through hands on immersion. In addition to tour groups we host private events and produce kosher and organic food that is widely enjoyed. The organization is run by Yisroel Bass and his wife Yonit Leah, and a dedicated group of volunteers. The Yiddish Farm exists thanks to the generous support afforded to us by donors like you. We are curren.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization hosted over ten yiddish language immersion tours to over nine hundred children fromthe surrounding area. Two overnight family programs and three day family daytime program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.3; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.24; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -28.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd 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: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.