Contra Costa Midrasha

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680171267
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Walnut Creek, CA, USA
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$265,126
Expenses
$263,119
Assets
$14,244
Liabilities
$38,762

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ISHAI CRANE (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • DEVRA AARONS (Executive Dir.): $83,753 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Contra Costa Midrasha is the place to be on Wednesday nights for Jewish teens to relax, hang out with friends, learn new things and make a difference in a Jewish environment. Devra serves as the Executive Director of Contra Costa Midrasha in Walnut Creek, CA, a position she's held for over 19 years. As the ED of CCM, Devra is honored by the work shepherding Jewish teens in a journey of Jewish exploration, identity development, and hands-on practice. In this role, she’s reconstructed curricula to focus on maintaining teen mental health and building life skills. Her creativity and willingness to experiment have brought an intergenerational film project, an exchange program with American and Israeli teens, and a renewed Philanthropy Board to the Contra Costa community. She teaches food justice, yoga, and gardening, using Talmudic teachings; and loves to examine the.

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024-25, Contra Costa Midrasha engaged in five key programming areas. First, CCM held 30 two-hour learning sessions on Wednesday nights from August 2024 through May 2025. Second, CCM ran three residential retreat weekends with teens from our campus and three other partner organizations. Third, CCM continued Better Together, our intergenerational interactive program between senior citizens and teens. Fourth, CCM's Hamsa Fund engaged teens in philanthropy by creating a mission and fundraising around it. Fifth, CCM's Impact Builder empowers students to make change through hands-on volunteering and advocacy. In all, CCM engaged 93 unique teens in its programming and an additional 21 elders through Better Together. In August 2025, CCM also eliminated its credit card debt after receiving the Covid payroll tax credit from the IRS.

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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.4%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 51.8%; rating input score 52
  • Fundraising efficiency: $641.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.72; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd 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: 51.4% of revenue deployed · 51.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.