A Way In
Legal name: A Way in Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453181318
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Phone
- 6106498200
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,740
- Expenses
- $134,600
- Assets
- $83,730
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Phyllis Myers (Chair)
- Elise Kraemer (Vice Chair)
- Elenora Bartoli (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A Way In Jewish Mindfulness organization offers spiritual practices that strengthen our capacity to be present to all that life brings. VISION:** _A Way In_ brings community, compassion and repair to the world through Jewish wisdom, spirituality and mindfulness. MISSION:**_A Way In_ offers Jewish teachings, Shabbat and holiday services, retreats, meditations and web-based resources to develop spiritual practices that nurture a deep connection with the natural world and encourage action for the well-being of all.
What it reported doing in 2025
The education of Jewish People in the Practice of "Jewish Minfulness"
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.4%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 46.1%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 52.4% of revenue deployed · 46.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.