Yugntruf — Youth for Yiddish
Legal name: Yugntruf-youth for Yiddish Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136272072
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212.796.5782
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,953
- Expenses
- $187,102
- Assets
- $144,100
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- JUDITH BRO (DIRECTOR)
- JORDAN KUTZIK (CHAIRMAN)
- MEENA-LIFSHE VISWANATH (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
Yugntruf ("call to youth" in Yiddish) cultivates the active use of the Yiddish language among today’s youth here and abroad by creating opportunities for Yiddish learning and immersion, and by providing resources and support for Yiddish speakers and families within an expansive social network. Board. Unlike most Yiddishists, Ladino served as Rivke’s gateway to Yiddishkeyt. While studying abroad in Spain in 2005, Rivke became enamored by Sephardic history and culture. Yet even after converting few years later, she sensed that something was still missing from her parve American-Jewish life. Thus...
What it reported doing in 2024
Events to assist in Yiddish speaking, speakers providing Yiddish immersion, to experience the Yiddish language and culture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.