Boston-Area Jewish Education Program
Legal name: Bjep Inc C/o Jason Shapiro
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042531886
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Waltham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7813867278
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,224
- Expenses
- $69,825
- Assets
- $145,420
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EVAN HOFFMAN (PRESIDENT/CL)
People named in this filing
- EVAN HOFFMAN (PRESIDENT/CL)
- DEANNA HOFFMAN (DIRECTOR)
- JASON SHAPIRO (VP/TREAS/ASS)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
BJEP provides an educational, enriching and fun alternative to traditional Jewish learning for Boston-area students, while fostering a community of inclusion and connection for families. 12. **Ometz Lev (Strength of the Heart):** Be brave and courageous! BJEP is a safe space to explore and try new things. We aim to empower and instill confidence in teachers, families, and students. Cooperative BJEP is a family cooperative with no full-time director or staff. Parents and guardians of current BJEP students, including those on the Board of Directors, volunteer their time to manage and guide the program. Key functions of the cooperative include financial management, staff hiring, event planning, strategic planning, curriculum oversight, marketing and communications. We are thrilled to welcome new families to BJEP and ask that you help us grow and sustain this organization by vol.
What it reported doing in 2024
Religious sunday school whose mission is to provide our students with the fundamental concepts of jewish religion, culture and values.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.08; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.