Bay Area Midrasha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943144434
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2016
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108434667
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $159,256
- Expenses
- $154,204
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CITRON (President)
People named in this filing
- LUCY HARRIS (Treasurer)
- WAYNE DIAMOND (Director)
- HARVEY VARGA (Director)
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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through classes, social programs, retreats, leadership opportunities, tzedaka and tikkun olam programs, Midrasha is designed to create a safe space to help Jewish teens find a true sense of personal Jewish understanding and a community of friends that will last a lifetime.
What it reported doing in 2016
27 weeks of classes in Jewish history, ethics, identity, philosophy, Israel, media and the arts. Student population: 90 (last school year). Also family programs, parent programs, teen retreats, leadership programs, and social action.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $128K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 to 2016
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.