Ashreinu Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
954178454
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3236510177
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,001,316
Expenses
$899,164
Assets
$1,827,536
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RABBI DANIEL ZARET (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • BARBARA ZARET (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • RABBI DANIEL ZARET (PRESIDENT & CEO): $130,105 total reported compensation
  • ARI MAMAN (TREASURER): $68,296 total reported compensation
  • BARBARA ZARET (VICE PRESIDENT): $45,491 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose involves jewish education primarily to unaffiliated and minority or marginally affiliated jewish students on university campuses throughout southern California.

What it reported doing in 2025

To achieve the organization's mission, the organization employs an array of rabbis, educators, and speakers to educate, inform and familiarize students with the beauty, aura, and fulfillment that exists in judaism. The organization sponsors an entire spectrum of trips, events, weekends, meetings, and discussions with students, staff rabbis, and celebrated speakers to increase awareness of the sanctity, beauty, and virtue of living a jewish life.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The strongest available result is that the organization raises money at a relatively low cost. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 47
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.6%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 48.6%; rating input score 49
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.6% of revenue deployed · 48.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $437K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.