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HIGHLAND VIEW CEMETERY CORP

RIDGEWOOD, NY · EIN 110879060 · Form 990 · FY2023 · Medium ($1M-$10M) · mountjudah.com
revenue
$2.8M
expenses
$1.2M
net assets
$29.3M
employees
4
mission · from form 990

TO OWN AND OPERATE A NON-PROFIT CEMETERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PLOT OWNERS.

profile · synthesized from sources

Non-profit cemetery organization operating Mount Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood, NY, serving the Jewish community since 1912. Owns and maintains a 37-acre burial ground with over 56,000 interments, offering individual gravesites, family plots, and sections for benevolent societies and congregations. Provides burial services, perpetual care, and monument maintenance in accordance with New York State not-for-profit regulations.

named programs · 5 · from sources

What they call their work

Endowed Care Program
Perpetual care service for graves and plots, funded through pre-paid contracts to ensure long-term maintenance of burial sites
Grave Opening Services
Facilitates interments and disinterments with scheduled grave openings, including overtime options for funerals
Monument and Foundation Services
Provides installation, sandblasting, cleaning, and repair of headstones, footstones, ledgers, and monuments
Photo of Grave Service
Offers photographic documentation of graves or monuments for remote family members for a service fee
Seasonal Care Program
Annual maintenance service for graves and private plots, including cleaning, seeding, and landscaping
activities · 3 groups

What they do

  • Cemetery and Cremation Services 3 activities
    • Manages private and group-owned burial plots
      Provides private family plots and individually owned graves, and manages approximately 295 grounds owned by benevolent societies, family circles, and congregations within the cemetery.
    • Owns and operates a non-profit cemetery for burial services
      Owns and operates a cemetery in Ridgewood, NY, providing burial services and maintaining grounds for plot owners. The cemetery has conducted over 56,000 burials since its first interment on March 8, 1912.
    • Provides fee-based grave maintenance and documentation services
      Offers a range of services including grave opening ($2,016.00), endowed care ($3,872.00), seasonal care ($110.00), headstone installation ($878.00), monument setting supervision ($52.00), rail painting ($92.00), removal of benches or shrubs ($64.00), and photographic documentation of gravesites ($20.00, typically delivered via email within one week).
  • Cemetery Operations and Public Access 1 activity
    • Operates administrative office and public access hours
      Operates an administrative office at 81-14 Cypress Avenue in Ridgewood, NY, open Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 4pm and Sundays from 8:30am to 3:30pm. Cemetery gates are open Sunday to Friday from 8am to 4pm, closed on Saturdays and select federal and religious holidays, with special openings on observed federal holidays and Election Day to support community access.
  • Cemetery Records and Genealogical Research 1 activity
    • Provides online tools for burial information and scheduling
      Offers an online interment search tool, maintains listings of today's and future interments, and provides public schedules of upcoming unveilings at Mount Judah Cemetery.
financials · form 990 · fy2023
revenue
Total revenue$2.81M
Contributions & grants$00%
Program service revenue$560K20%
Investment income$2.13M76%
Other revenue$114K
expenses
Total expenses$1.23M
Program expenses
Admin / overhead
Fundraising
Salaries & benefits$436K
Grants paid out$0
Largest expense lineCompensation
balance sheet
Total assets$29.33M
Cash$1.95M
Investments$27.14M
Liabilities$17K
Net assets$29.31M
Liquid reserves284.1 mo
5 years on record · 2019–2023 · YoY revenue +12.4%
leadership · form 990 part vii · fy2023

Who runs it

paid leadership · 7
NameTitleHours/wkCompensation
JOHN KUROC PRESIDENT/SUPERINTENDENT 40 $111K
MARK STEMPA TREAS/DIR/CONSULTANT 12 $28K
MARVIN FREIMAN PRES/DIR 1 $14K
RICHARD FREIMAN VICE PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR 1 $10K
ADAM GINSBERG DIRECTOR 0 $10K
ANDREW MUHLSTOCK DIRECTOR 0 $10K
MATTHEW STEMPA DIRECTOR 0 $10K
relationships · 3

Who they work with

  • Highland View Cemetery Corporation Network — Operates as Mount Judah Cemetery, serving the Jewish community in Brooklyn/Queens.
  • Mount Judah Cemetery Partner — Collaborates to provide interment search and burial location services.
  • Mount Judah Cemetery Partner — Shares unveiling information for events held at Mount Judah Cemetery.