Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770245931
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6504948200
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,363,871
- Expenses
- $16,451,208
- Assets
- $50,683,147
- Liabilities
- $9,057,594
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ISAAC KONTOROVSKY (PRESIDENT)
- RONIT ALCHECK BODNER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL LEHMANN (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $452,694 total reported compensation
- CAROLYN PIRAINO (ASSOCIATE HEAD OF SCHOOL): $325,861 total reported compensation
- ANNE VARRO (CFO (THRU 08/24)): $259,223 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Gideon hausner jewish day school (the "school") is a California nonprofit organization that was established in may 1989. The main objective of the school is to provide educational services for all children through tk-8 in and around santa (continuation on sch o) clara county, California. The school provided education for 318 students during the year ended june 30, 2025.
What it reported doing in 2024
Gideon hausner jewish day school (the "school") is a California nonprofit organization that was established in may 1989. The main objective of the school is to provide educational services for all children through tk-8 in and around santa clara county, California. The school provided education for 318 students during the year ended june 30, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% 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 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 5.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.08; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $453K · 31 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.