Mentorah
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820759922
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- South Fallsburg, NY, USA
- Phone
- 845-596-4941
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,654
- Expenses
- $104,398
- Assets
- $90,257
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RABBI MEIR S KALATSKY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RABBI MEIR S KALATSKY (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW BERKOWITZ (SECRETARY-TR)
- AARON AMBALU (TRUSTEE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
MENTORAH provides a mentorship and strong-community approach to help Orthodox Jewish college students continue Torah learning while balancing a college schedule and/or a professional job—through continuing Torah learning, mentorship from older students and alumni, and a like-minded community. MENTORAH has evolved to become an effective program led by Rabbi Meir Simcha Kalatsky. The Rav has been committed to assuring that his students maintain the passion and enthusiasm for Torah growth and learning, all while balancing a college schedule and/or a professional job. Learning b’chavrusa with young professionals at the Yad Avraham institute in Midtown Manhattan, Rabbi Kalatsky saw a further need to mentor and learn with students facing the conflicting college life. Now, that mission has expanded to serving the students of NYU, Baruch, Cooper Union, Queens College, Columbia University...
What it reported doing in 2024
Set up and run jewish study programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -36.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 56%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.