Hebrew Free Burial Association

Name

Hebrew Free Burial Association

Legal name

Hebrew Free Burial Association

Website

https://hebrewfreeburial.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1888

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Jewish Funeral and Cemetery Services

NAICS

Funeral Homes and Funeral Services (81221), Cemeteries and Crematories (812220), Religious Organizations (813110)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Bereavement, Grief & Family Support Services (Hospice-Linked) (HLAFAEAO)

Keywords

• Jewish burial services
• Traditional funeral services
• Cemetery maintenance
• Nonprofit end-of-life care
• Chevra Kadisha preparation

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: HFBA is a nonprofit organization that relies entirely on donations from individuals, community leaders, and supporters. The organization offers multiple giving mechanisms including online donations, car donations, wills and bequests, Qualified Charitable Distributions from IRAs, Bar/Bat Mitzvah Circle contributions, cemetery clean-up volunteer support, and planned giving.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hebrew Free Burial Association arranges complete traditional Jewish funeral and burial services at no cost for indigent Jews in the greater New York metropolitan area who lack family or financial means to arrange their own burial. Services include removal of the deceased, Tahara (ritual preparation by the Chevra Kadisha), coordination with government agencies, burial in shrouds and a plain wooden coffin, rabbi-led funeral services, grave maintenance, and headstone installation. Supporting offerings include yahrzeit reminders, fee-based Kaddish services, genealogy assistance, and educational outreach on end-of-life planning, all sustained through charitable donations.

Product overview

Hebrew Free Burial Association operates as a nonprofit burial society offering a portfolio of related services centered on traditional Jewish funeral and cemetery care. The core offering is the Burials and Pre-needs service, which handles the complete funeral arrangement process for indigent Jews including body preparation (Tahara), coordination, and burial. Supporting services include Cemetery Maintenance (managing Mount Richmond and Silver Lake cemeteries), Yarzheit Reminders (annual death anniversary notifications), Kaddish Services (prayer recitation), Educational Programs (end-of-life planning outreach), and Genealogy Services (burial plot location assistance). The Leave Your Mark Campaign and Chesed Newsletter serve as supplementary fundraising and communication vehicles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Burials and Pre-needs

Quantifiable outcome

• 65,000+ indigent Jews buried since the 1880s
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemeteries (CAJAC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017HFBA and CAJAC issued a joint statement strongly condemning acts of anti-Semitism committed against Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in Missouri and Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia. CAJAC's mission is to honor and respect the departed who can no longer speak for themselves and represents the New York Jewish community's consolidated efforts to preserve older distressed Jewish cemeteries. Both organizations stand in solidarity against hate crimes and desecration of Jewish cemeteries.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• Green-Wood Cemetery: Historic 478-acre cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Comparable as a New York-area cemetery operator with similar perpetual-care obligations and active burial operations, though non-sectarian and operates on a paid-plots model rather than free burial.
• Woodlawn Cemetery: Historic active cemetery in the Bronx, NY. Comparable on the cemetery-maintenance, perpetual-care, and active-burial axes with substantial real-estate footprint in the NYC metro area — the same region HFBA serves.

Broad incumbents

• Park Lawn Corporation: Canadian deathcare operator providing funeral, cemetery, and cremation services. Comparable on the cemetery operations and funeral-services axes, with similar cemetery-maintenance and perpetual-care obligations.
• StoneMor Partners: Public cemetery operator and funeral services provider with a portfolio of cemeteries across the U.S. Comparable as a cemetery operator with similar asset-heavy operating model (cemetery maintenance, sales of plots, perpetual-care funding).
• Carriage Services: Public deathcare company operating funeral homes and cemeteries across the U.S. Comparable as a multi-site deathcare operator with funeral and cemetery assets, though HFBA's free-burial model is structurally different from Carriage's for-profit franchise model.
• Service Corporation International (SCI): The largest funeral services and cemetery operator in North America with brands such as Dignity Memorial and others. Comparable as a broad incumbent in deathcare and cemetery operations, but operates at vastly greater scale and as a for-profit public company.
• Foundation Partners Group: Private funeral services operator founded and backed by private equity (Access Holdings). Comparable as a multi-site funeral operator, though distinctly for-profit and broader-market rather than Jewish-specific.

Others

• Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemeteries (CAJAC): NY-based alliance dedicated to preserving distressed Jewish cemeteries and representing community interests. Already a formal partner of HFBA via a 2017 joint statement, operating as an ecosystem ally rather than a direct competitor.

Direct peers

• Sinai Memorial Chapel: Long-standing Jewish funeral home in San Francisco serving the Bay Area Jewish community. Comparable to HFBA in offering Jewish-specific funeral services (Tahara, shrouds, traditional burial), though as a paid provider rather than a free burial society.
• Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries: A Jewish-affiliated cemetery and funeral services operator serving the greater Los Angeles area. Direct comparable to HFBA in that it provides culturally specific Jewish burial and mortuary services to a regional Jewish community, though operating as a paid rather than free society.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hebrew-free-burial-association

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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