B'nai Shalom Day School
Legal name: B'nai Shalom Synagogue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 560952340
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3368555091
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,385,697
- Expenses
- $2,632,788
- Assets
- $6,238,830
- Liabilities
- $464,347
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERYN GREENSTEIN (PRESIDENT)
- MINDY ANDREWS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEN STRASSER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- EVA TURNER (INCOMING HEAD OF SCHOOL): $98,805 total reported compensation
- SUSAN SIEGEL (OUTGOING HEAD OF SCHOOL): $88,728 total reported compensation
- DANA RAVINS (BUSINESS DIRECTOR): $19,423 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The B’NAI SHALOM Day School mission is to inspire curiosity, critical-thinking, confidence, and a connection to Jewish values. At its core, B'nai Shalom has always been guided by the belief that every family who wishes to provide their children with a Jewish education should have that opportunity. Many in the community refer to the school as the "heart" of Jewish life in Greensboro, a place where Jewish values and the richness of Jewish tradition shape how students understand themselves, their relationships with others, and their responsibility to pursue a more just world. Thanks to the dedication of its staff and community, every B'nai Shalom graduate leaves motivated, prepared, and equipped with the curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking to make a meaningful difference. Beyond the classroom, B'nai Shalom has.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization is a private jewish day school providing secular and religious education in a full day program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.9%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th 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: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.37; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.