Fuchs Mizrachi School
Legal name: Fuchs Mizrachi Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341400924
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Beachwood, OH, USA
- Phone
- (216) 932-0220
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,632,312
- Expenses
- $16,666,639
- Assets
- $67,354,201
- Liabilities
- $27,686,274
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MITCH WOLF (PRESIDENT)
- DANIELLE WILD (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RABBI AVERY JOEL (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $249,287 total reported compensation
- MARINA LEYDIKER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $168,069 total reported compensation
- SHIRA TELLER (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $144,987 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a warm, nurturing, deeply connected community where children can thrive through Torah, academic growth, and an unshakeable bond with Eretz Yisrael.
What it reported doing in 2024
Upper school (6th grade through 12th grade)fuchs mizrachi high school is committed to nurturing each student so that they can achieve their emotional, intellectual, and religious potential. We offer a dual curriculum in both judaic and secular classes with students taking an average of nine periods daily. We adhere to the guidelines of the state of Ohio and proudly boast of our success on the Ohio graduation tests. There are parallel tracts, honors and college preparatory in each discipline to ensure that individual's needs are met. Our students are sought out by the top universities in the country and have enjoyed great success in college.we encourage our students to continue their development by studying in israel immediately after high school and are delighted by the overwhelming majority of graduates who attend the finest institutions of higher learning in israel. In our effort to develop all aspects of our students' personalities, a full range of extracurricular activities are both offered and supported. Both boys and girls participate on athletic teams and our school sends a delegation to yeshiva university's model u.n. Annual competition. Students are involved in a myriad of projects assisting the community with the highlight being our two "let's make a difference" days. The school partners with local youth groups such as bnei akiva and ncsy where the children develop critical leadership skills. We believe that fuchs mizrachi graduates are ready to change the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.04; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $249K · 31 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $616K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.