Aish Chaim
Legal name: Aish-hatorah-metro Philadelphia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232854127
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Bala Cynwyd, PA, US
- Phone
- 6106688800
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $73,558
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- HERBERT T CASKEY MD (CHAIRPERSON)
- DARYL KLEIN (VICE CHAIRPERSON)
- HERBERT BERKOWITZ (TREASURER)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering all Jews to learn, love and live Judaism to the fullest
What it reported doing in 2020
None - all program activity in 2020 was taken over and conducted by etz chaim center for jewish studies d/b/a aish chaim as a result of the 2019 affiliation. The $57,159 grant was the final dissolution distribution to this successor entity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 153.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -31.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 14 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2020
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.