Bureau of Jewish Education
Legal name: Bureau of Jewish Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237099140
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- Phone
- 3172553124
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $305,545
- Expenses
- $353,930
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHEILA GREENWALD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SARAH FREEMAN (VICE PRESIDE)
- BENJAMIN GREENFIELD (TREASURER)
- JENNIFER COHEN (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The bureau of jewish education is the primary resource of jewish education within the community and beyond. The bureau of jewish education provides educational and social services to the jewish and general community of indianapolis through various programs.
What it reported doing in 2017
Holocaust educational initiative: the bje provides teacher training to teachers in both public and private schools throughout the state of Indiana to help ensure that the holocaust is taught appropriately and accurately. Each year teachers have opportunities to attend in person and distance learning seminars to enhance their knowledge. The bje also provides a holocaust trunk program for teachers to request supporting materials to their lessons and a holocaust speakers' bureau. The bje works with the jewish community relations council in providing the educational support to holocaust rememberence programs sponsored by the state martin luther king memorial celebration committee at the statehouse and by the mayor of carmel, in. The bje also serves as the coordinator for communal educational programs through the jewish educational directors' council.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $342.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 15; 15th 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 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $308K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.