New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC
THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,312,140 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($2,372,423). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $132k
What The Kesher Organization Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to create and operate a mentoring program which will provide training, advice and encouragement to jewish youths and young adults seeking to obtain or increase the level of their religious observance and their integration into the jewish religiously observant community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Engaging rabbinical leaders to serve as role models and advisors for young adults between the approximate ages of 17 and 30. Each rabbi will be assigned to a group of between five and ten young adults. The rabbis will maintain connection with their group through weekly contact by phone, e-mail and in one-to-one and personal meetings. The rabbinical leaders will also schedule group gatherings on at least a bimonthly basis.
$1,925,811 spent$2,458,921 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,925,811.
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 2023 to 2024, from $448k to $132k (−71%).
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.
100% of THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Rabbi Joseph Haber
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $113k → $477k.
3 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 83% · 2019 71% · 2020 74% · 2021 71% · 2022 36% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“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
22% of THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
75% of THE KESHER ORGANIZATION 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. Of the $842k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE KESHER ORGANIZATION 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Howard Hoffman & Sons Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC?
- THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,312,140 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($2,372,423). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,312,140 in grants to THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,372,423 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KESHER ORGANIZATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 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