Merkaz Community High School for Judaic Studies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471225565
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Bridgeport, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2034505303
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,262
- Expenses
- $87,285
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- ANN BLOCK (BOARD MEMBER)
- NATALIE FRIED (BOARD MEMBER)
- JONATHAN GREEN (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operates a weekly three hour hebrew high school for jewish teens in grades 9 to 12.
What it reported doing in 2021
To provide a meaningful and relevant jewish education to our community teens that builds character, positive values, leadership, a strong jewish identity, and creates a sense of unity with the jewish people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -471.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -65% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.