Mifgash Jewish Community High School Program
Legal name: Mifgash Jewish Educational Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262868502
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Albany, NY, US
- Phone
- (518) 438-6651
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,836
- Expenses
- $30,811
- Assets
- $129,221
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JODY FERENCE (PRESIDENT)
- ROGERIO MARX (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RUTH MALKA (DIRECTOR)
- JODY FERENCE (PRESIDENT)
- ROGERIO MARX (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
To create an active learning community that is responsive to the needs of Jewish teens, and to offer teens opportunities to strengthen their Jewish identity and knowledge, their connection to the Jewish community, and their bond to Israel.
What it reported doing in 2024
October 7th testimony: students participated in a powerful learning session on october 7th, guided by an israeli teacher who shared a first-hand account of the events. This personal testimony created an authentic and impactful learning moment of the students.community rabbis text seminar: we hosted a semester-long course taught collaboratively by seven community rabbis. Each rabbi taught a favorite jewish text, bringing their own unique perspectives, teaching styles, and areas of expertise. This diverse learning experience allowed students to engage with a wide range of ideas, voices, and traditions with judaism.holocaust history through art - the butterfly project: mifgash students participated in the butterfly project, an arts-based holocaust education initiative. After viewing a documentary, students painted ceramic butterflies in memory of 1.5 million children murdered in the holocaust. This project combines historical learning with personal expression, with the global goal of creating 1.5 million butterflies worldwide-one for each child whose life was taken.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 64% 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
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: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -703.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.19; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.