Colel Chabad (US)

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Colel Chabad is a US 501(c)3 foundation (EIN Number: 11-3254483) which is devoted to supporting Colel Chabad in occupied Palestine.

Its current director is Rabbi Sholom Duchman.


Kolomoisky connection

Dozens of New York’s Jewish organizations have had their bottom lines bolstered by two businessmen accused of laundering billions for a Burisma-connected Ukrainian oligarch, public records show.
Mordechai Korf, 48, and Uri Laber, 49, have shelled out more than $11 million to nearly 70 yeshivas and religious charities in Brooklyn and across the state, according to federal tax filings.
But Korf and Laber are more than just generous benefactors: since 2006, the Miami-based pair have allegedly been middlemen for Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, funneling $4 billion of his ill-gotten gains to buy property and businesses in the U.S, according to three civil lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in Florida federal court.
On Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken banned Kolomoisky and his immediate family from America, citing Kolomoisky’s “significant corruption.” The billionaire has long been accused of repeatedly raiding PrivatBank, a Ukrainian bank he once co-owned, legal filings show.
Kolomoisky, who built his fortune during the lawless years immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, reportedly has a controlling interest in Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company which put President Biden’s son, Hunter, on its board of directors in 2014 at a salary of $50,000 per month. Kolomoisky dispatched his private army to take over companies and destroy a Russian-owned oil and gas refinery in Dnipropetrovsk in 2014, according to reports.
Kolomoisky and a partner, Gennadiy Boholiubov, are accused of taking out billions in fraudulent loans and lines of credit from PrivatBank, which they co-owned, funneling the cash through a “web of entities” created by Korf and Laber.
Korf and Laber — who met Kolomoisky decades ago while working and volunteering in the Ukrainian province he governed — gave a total of more than $1.4 million to Brooklyn’s Jewish Educational Media, and nearly $1 million to the Manhattan-based Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States, nine countries which banded together after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union].
Laber is listed as a board member of Jewish Educational Media, a nonprofit which promotes the work of the late Grand Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, the Ukraine-born spiritual leader of the Chabad Lubavitcher movement.
Colel Chabad, a Brooklyn charity for orphans and widows, received $466,647 between 2006 and 2013 from Laber Foundation Inc., while the Korf Family Foundation Inc. gave $476,000 between 2006 and 2013 to the charity.
Authorities have not accused the charities of wrongdoing.[1]

Tax status and filings

According to the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Colel Chabad (EIN 11-3254483, 806 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn) has been recognised as exempt under section 501(c)(3) since a ruling dated November 1995. The IRS classifies it as a church (foundation code 10), and its filing-requirement code is 06, "not required to file (church)". It therefore does not file the annual Form 990 that most charities must make public, and ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer holds no return for it.[2][3] Its income and spending cannot be checked from public returns. What can be checked is what donors reported giving it, such as the two foundations below.

Editor's note: church status is a classification the IRS records; the BMF does not show whether the IRS has ever examined it. It should not be confused with the Canadian Colel Chabad Lubavitch Foundation of Israel (Montreal), a separate body.

Grants from the Korf and Laber foundations (Form 990-PF)

The grants to Colel Chabad (806 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn) listed on the 990-PF returns of the two foundations of Uri Laber and Mordechai Korf are set out below. The Laber figures add up to $466,647, the same as the New York Post figure. The Korf figures add up to $304,197, which is $171,803 less than the Post figure of $476,000; this page has not found where the difference comes from. No grant to Colel Chabad appears on either foundation's returns after the tax year ending November 2014.

Tax year ending From the Laber Foundation From the Korf Family Foundation Payee name as filed Source
Nov 2006 $80,000 $138,600 Colel Chabad [4][5]
Nov 2007 $67,170 — Colel Chabad [6]
Nov 2008 $166,177 $43,525 Colel Chabad [7][8]
Nov 2009 $71,000 $36,072 Colel Chabad [9][10]
Nov 2010 $61,500 $50,000 Colel Chabad; Colel Chabad Lubavitch [11][12]
Nov 2011 $10,400 — Colel Chabad Lubavitch [13]
Nov 2012 $8,600 — Colel Chabad Lubavitch [14]
Nov 2013 $1,800 — Colel Chabad [15]
Nov 2014 — $36,000 Colel Chabad [16]
Total $466,647 $304,197
Editor's note: these are lawful grants as reported to the IRS. The forfeiture complaints concerning Korf and Laber are allegations, the two men are claimants and not defendants, and they deny wrongdoing. No authority has accused Colel Chabad of wrongdoing, and no source has traced any allegedly misappropriated money to it. See Chabad and Ukraine for the full account.

Contact

  • Address: 806 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213 USA
  • Phone: 718-774-5446 ; 718-773-1614
  • Web: colelchabad.org

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Businessmen accused of Ukraine money laundering gave millions to NY charities", New York Post, 6 March 2021, https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/businessmen-accused-of-ukraine-money-laundering-gave-millions-to-ny-charities/
  2. ↑ Internal Revenue Service, Exempt Organizations Business Master File extract for New York (eo_ny.csv), irs.gov, downloaded 20 October 2026, row for EIN 113254483 (subsection 03, ruling 199511, foundation code 10, filing requirement code 06, NTEE X30Z). Primary source (IRS).
  3. ↑ ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, "Colel Chabad", organisation page (no Form 990 filings listed), checked 20 October 2026.
  4. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2006 (2005 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  5. ↑ The Korf Family Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3942766), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2006 (2005 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  6. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2007 (2006 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  7. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2008 (2007 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  8. ↑ The Korf Family Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3942766), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2008 (2007 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  9. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2009 (2008 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  10. ↑ The Korf Family Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3942766), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2009 (2008 form), paper or printed return as scanned for the IRS public-inspection set, PDF via ProPublica. Read from the page images. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  11. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2010 (2009 form), e-filed 2011-03-17, IRS e-file object ID 201130769349100003, PDF via ProPublica, XML from the IRS e-file data mirrored by the GivingTuesday 990 data lake. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  12. ↑ The Korf Family Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3942766), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2010 (2009 form), e-filed 2011-07-15, IRS e-file object ID 201111969349100601, PDF via ProPublica, XML from the IRS e-file data mirrored by the GivingTuesday 990 data lake. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  13. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2011 (2010 form), e-filed 2012-09-05, IRS e-file object ID 201222499349100512, PDF via ProPublica, XML from the IRS e-file data mirrored by the GivingTuesday 990 data lake. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  14. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2012 (2011 form), e-filed 2013-04-23, IRS e-file object ID 201321139349100017, PDF via ProPublica, XML from the IRS e-file data mirrored by the GivingTuesday 990 data lake. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  15. ↑ The Laber Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3925774), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2013 (2012 form), e-filed 2014-06-20, IRS e-file object ID 201431719349100303, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, full filing, PDF via ProPublica. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
  16. ↑ The Korf Family Foundation Inc (EIN 20-3942766), Form 990-PF for the tax year ending 30 November 2014 (2013 form), e-filed 2015-07-14, IRS e-file object ID 201511959349100216, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, full filing, PDF via ProPublica. Primary source (filed by the foundation).
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