Binyan Yisroel
Legal name: Binyan Yisroel Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 880803776
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, United States
- Phone
- (443) 272-1208
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $736,650
- Expenses
- $698,594
- Assets
- $221,793
- Liabilities
- $139,944
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ari Bregin (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Alana Weinberg (Executive Dir.): $67,913 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Binyan Yisroel provides an excellent Judaic and General Studies education for Jewish children with diagnosed language-based learning differences, following the approach of “al pi derech Hatorah,” and focuses on building upon students’ strengths so each child can reach their full potential. Our faculty includes Literacy specialist, Speech and Language therapists, Educational Coordinators, Mentors and a School Administrator. Each classroom is staffed with a specialized educator, as well as additional support staff available for individualized reading and math instruction per each child’s individual education plan. Our educators are passionate, engaging, caring, warm, fun, collaborative, devoted, resourceful, creative, exciting, professional, and flexible individuals who believe in being lifelong learners and value every student. Binyan collaborates with community resources for all...
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide Jewish education to children with learning disabilities.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 77%; 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: 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 113.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $538K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.