Minnesota · Nonprofit
NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster
NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster (Minnesota) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,610,646 to it, the largest being THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ($356,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster does
Mission
Rooted in the Jewish principle of tikkun olam (repairing the world), NECHAMA engages volunteers in disaster relief, rebuilds people's lives, provides comfort and hope, and represents the Jewish people and our values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Disaster response and recovery - Following hurricanes, flooding, and wind events, NECHAMA provides responsive services by mucking out homes; removing debris, damaged goods, and mud and sediment; gutting homes down to their studs to prepare them for rebuilding; and clearing downed trees, brush and dislodged debris.
$954,507 spentof which $5,060 as grants91% of program spendingDisaster preparedness - In an effort to help affected-communities and national and local partners, NECHAMA offers preparedness training aimed at improving the disaster response skills of local volunteers and staff.
$50,591 spent5% of program spendingCombating Antisemitism - Motivated by the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (the obligation to repair the world), NECHAMA provides disaster relief services to the most vulnerable members of their impacted communities regardless of religion. Many served by Nechama have never previously met a Jewish person. NECHAMA engages in community relations to help humanize Jews and combat antisemitism.
$42,944 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,048,042.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $993k to $350k (−65%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2021 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (70% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stephan Kline
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $221k → $45k.
24 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 24% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 26% · 2022 54% · 2023 37% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
16% of NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $966k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster is better cushioned than half of the 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster?
- NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster (Minnesota) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,610,646 to it, the largest being THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ($356,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $2,610,646 in grants to NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster?
- THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $356,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NECHAMA - Jewish Response to Disaster find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing