TAL Academy
Legal name: Lapid Yeshiva Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881917189
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rockaway Park, NY, United States
- Phone
- (516) 218-1929
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,244,341
- Expenses
- $747,177
- Assets
- $1,098,533
- Liabilities
- $43,809
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAPHAEL DACHS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RAPHAEL DACHS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $31,737 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
TAL Academy is an elementary (yeshiva) school providing students with language-based learning disabilities an outstanding Judaic and general studies curriculum using effective, research-based instruction in a warm and nurturing Torah environment, with the goal of helping students return to their neighborhood schools with self-confidence and a love of Torah and Mitzvos.
What it reported doing in 2024
School for students with disabilities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $134.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 40.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th 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: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $717K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 26 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.