Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Preparatory School
Legal name: Arthur I Meyer Jewish Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591491258
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US
- Phone
- 561.686.6520
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,417,484
- Expenses
- $5,586,477
- Assets
- $5,640,819
- Liabilities
- $1,748,125
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN KANEL (PRESIDENT)
- LISA SCHREIER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBIN KANEL (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW KOERNER (TRUSTEE)
- BARBARA FRIEDMAN (TRUSTEE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
WE ARE MEYER PREP! Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Preparatory School students transition to independent and public high schools and receive an admissions advantage when applying to International Baccalaureate high schools—wherever they go, they go prepared, becoming leaders. This is preparation for life; it doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by intent, in a fostered spirit of inquiry—the byproduct is impact.
What it reported doing in 2024
To promote secular education and jewish religious knowledge to children through a program of education in a school environment. Programs are provided on a non-discriminatory basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 80% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.9%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.