Telshe Yeshiva-chicago Rabbinical College
Overview
Mission
The organization is a four year academic high school offering both religious and secular curriculums and a post secondary school of higher learning.
What it reported doing in 2014
The organization is a four year academic high school offering both religious and secular curriculums and a post secondary school of higher learning
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362464241
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.41; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 70.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2011 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- RABBI S ADLER (EXEC. DIRECTOR): $57,609 total reported compensation
- RABBI C KELLER (VICE PRESIDENT): $41,793 total reported compensation
- RABBI A LEVIN (PRESIDENT): $38,481 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2014.