California · Nonprofit
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $375k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Organization for the Advancement of Mussar Inc does
Mission
The organization's goal is to provide jewish educational classes, seminars, lectures and events which promote and enhance jewish development and character development through introspection (I.e. "mussar"). It is the organization's mission and hope, that by advancing the study of mussar, it will imbue the organization's participants with a greater love and joy for life and the tools necessary for each participant to attain spiritual growth and character development through mussar.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's goal is to provide jewish educational classes, seminars, lectures and events which promote and enhance jewish development and character development through introspection (I.e. "mussar"). To provide such classes, seminars, etc., the employment of qualified individuals is a given. For the year in question, this inncluded also a donation to the zerach barnet synagogue through the pef israel endowment fund. The zerach barnet synagogue, located in israel hosted multiple lectures for the organization. This was the method of payment for usage of the space. Additional details on schedule o, under grants and allocations detail.
$196,999 spentof which $57,735 as grants$306,533 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $196,999.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $11k to $100k (+785%).
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.
15% of ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Lawrence Kelemen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC: 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 ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC?
- ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,600 in grants to ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSSAR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing