Gan Israel Preschool

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260718685
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
San Rafael, CA, USA
Phone
4155070460
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Child Day Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$434,923
Expenses
$473,258
Assets
$78,760
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gittel Rice Goodman (President Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Gittel Rice Goodman (President Director): $101,715 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Gan Israel Preschool provides day care pre-school services for young children ages 18 months to 5 years. The preschool offers a creative and nurturing environment where any child regardless of race or religion will feel at home. Gan Israel is an Outdoor-Education Certified preschool where children will spend all of their day outdoors.

What it reported doing in 2025

Gan Israel Preschools objective is to provide day care services to children ages 18 months to 5 years in the city of San Rafael CA. The preschools mission is to prepare children for further education and transition into kindergarten and elementary school to enrich their knowledge in Jewish culture and traditions and to enable parents to attend places of employment while their children are being cared for in a natural outdoor and nurturing environment. This year the preschool provided services for 31 students some of whose families have difficulty paying full tuition. The preschool works with community organizations to find program funding as well as to provide tuition scholarships and discounts to those families. Any scholarship funds contributed to the preschool are redirected through its scholarship committee to be distributed to families who qualify for financial aid as well as to program and site enrichment. In addition to distributing the scholarship amounts received from community organizations the preschool provides financially challenged families with extra tuition discounts and scholarships. The preschool accomplished its primary mission of providing early Jewish childhood education to young children while at the same time enabling financially-strapped parents to send their child to their preschool of choice.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 59
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.2%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -8.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.2% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $379K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.