Beineinu
Legal name: Beineinu Nyc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812172495
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3105950870
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $247,337
- Expenses
- $318,940
- Assets
- $17,916
- Liabilities
- $105,020
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Laurie Phillips (FOUNDER & RABBI): $68,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Making Jewish life relevant and meaningful; empowering people to engage in Judaism over a lifetime with strength and pride. Following her move to New York in 2000, Daphna served as Musician in Residency at B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue for over a decade, while leading and developing the robust Early Childhood program and at Brotherhood Synagogue in Gramercy Park. In 2015 Daphna joined Rabbi Laurie Phillips z”l as a partner in Beineinu, fulfilling a dream of co-leading a community grounded in kindness, personal connection and joy as well as empowering people to engage in Judaism with Daphna is a devoted educator and curriculum developer with experience of over 25 years in both Jewish and Art Education. She has been acting as a Musician to the Education Department at the Met Museum since 2001. Passionate performer and t.
What it reported doing in 2023
Beineinu learning groups/havurah building - the organization's households, and implements a plan with each group. The group decides the content and the frequency of meetings, gathering throughout the year to explore and connect with jewish learning and one another, and developing and strengthening identity with relevance and meaning. Their high holy days - members of the jewish community gather at an upper west side.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.86; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $246K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.