Cheder Darchai Limud Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453322962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3477436132
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,013
- Expenses
- $155,602
- Assets
- $7,429
- Liabilities
- $42,584
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Yehuda Adelist (Director - Administrator)
- Shloimie Zarchi (Director)
- Batsheva Greenwald (Director)
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
Our Organization is a religious organization which seeks to strengthen the level and quality of education within the Jewish school system (schools that follow a Hebrew / religious curriculum). The first program that we operate focuses on children who are falling behind in school, either socially or scholastically. The second program that we have is preparing a curriculum to be used by schools, parents and tutors, which contains essential skills broken down and visually engaging. This is useful for all children challenging the brightest and reaching the academically challenged simultaneously. The curriculum already created has demonstrated to provide a benchmark for standards being implemented in Jewish Studies. This has also fostered inclusion. Children who are falling behind but do not warrant entrance to a separate run program are able to be part of a mainstream setting and are in their least restrictive environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
In August 2015, the organization began publishing the curriculum and promoting it to schools and parents in the wider community. This included a Hebrew reading curriculum and Hebrew Bible Curriculum. The Hebrew reading curriculum is highly graphical, engaging and hands on and textbooks on other Hebrew subjects including Bible and Hebrew language. The Hebrew reading curriculum gives parents and schools the option of remediating reading disabilities using a DIY series of workbooks that have all the professional techniques that specialists use laid out in fun-filled exercises with clear instructions. This has proven to be highly effective and spares the parents the need to spend thousands of dollars on remedial programs. Remedial tutors also like using it as it makes their work more effective. The Hebrew Bible curriculum is designed in such a way that the content and architecture of the curriculum allows schools to promote inclusion in their mainstream classroom, as the materials cleverly engage the weakest while simultaneously stimulating and challenging the brightest. We completing the 7th volume of the Children's Chumash series (Parshas Vayeitzei). We also have a new Talmud curriculum for the Jewish community. The first volume is a Visual introduction to the Talmud. The next volume is an actual chapter of the Talmud (Tractate Berochos Chapter 4). This is an illustrative and engaging version of the Talmud. We are continuing to work on creating other chapters. The material is the selected parts that are typically taught in Jewish Day Schools.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -52.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.73; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $155K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.