Minyan Avreichim
Legal name: American Friends of Minyan Avreichim
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261963112
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Merion Station, PA, USA
- Phone
- 052-766-1927
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $235,483
- Expenses
- $270,718
- Assets
- $61,211
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- YIRMIYOHU BAUMINGER (TRUSTEE)
- GERSHOM ELEPHANT (TRUSTEE)
- LIBA BAUMINGER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Minyan Avreichim was started in 2003 by a group of English-speaking _bnei Torah_ in Sanhedria Murchevet who were looking for a more familiar shul environment. This small group wanted a place where they could focus on growing in their _avodas Hashem_ ; where they didn’t need to pull out a dictionary just to make small talk with fellow _mispalelim_. They started their minyan in a vacant bomb shelter in building 107 and Anglos came by the dozens, eager to join a _kehila_ where they felt at home. Expansion When the much larger _beis medrash_ in Knesses Yehuda became available, our _kehila_ moved in and never looked back.
What it reported doing in 2020
To support fertility treatment for under privileged individuals
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $263K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2017 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.