Beth El Hebrew Congregation
Legal name: Beth El House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541624821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7039121992
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,622
- Expenses
- $93,017
- Assets
- $54,820
- Liabilities
- $4,774
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENNIS CHAMOT (Vice President)
- JILL MENDELSON (President)
- MELONIE BARROWS (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- MELONIE BARROWS (Executive Director): $28,858 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are Beth El, a sacred Jewish community for all who seek connection, meaning, and healing. We are authentic.** Our worship and community life reflect Jewish values in modern times, bringing ancient wisdom into contemporary life. We care for each other.** At Beth El, you’re family. We embrace diversity and support one another through life’s joys and challenges. We welcome everyone.** No matter where you are in your Jewish journey, there’s a place for you at Beth El. Our diverse congregation warmly embraces individuals and households of all backgrounds. You’ll feel at home whether you grew up in a Jewish tradition, chose Judaism as your spiritual journey, or are part of a Jewish partnership.
What it reported doing in 2017
Provide three formerly homeless families the opportunity to work toward self sufficiency. Provide economic stability as well as emotional and life-skills support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.91 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2011 to 2017
- 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.
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 — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.