Pacific Torah Institute
Legal name: Pacific Torah Institute Charitable Tr
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 306060989
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Phone
- 604-261-1502
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,485
- Expenses
- $2,105
- Assets
- $3,936
- Liabilities
- $361,038
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amity Stern (President)
People named in this filing
- Aron Csaplarosa (Director at Large)
- Amity Stern (President)
- Rabbi Boruch Feinstein (Director at Large)
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
Our Mission: Challenge our students with an uncompromising Torah and University preparatory program enabling them to succeed at the finest institutions of higher learning; Provide a program that will develop each to man’s unique talents and abilities; Inspire each individual student’s character by emphasizing Jewish ethics within the curriculum; Create a Torah centre to benefit the Vancouver community and the entire Pacific Northwest. Challenge **our students with an uncompromising Torah and University preparatory program enabling them to succeed at the finest institutions of higher learning. Provide** our students with a program that will develop each to man’s unique talents and abilities. Inspire** each individual student’s character by emphasizing Jewish ethics within the...
What it reported doing in 2024
Challenge our students with an uncompromising TORAH and university preparatory program enabling them to succeed at the finest institutions of higher learning.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.2%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 15
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: 98.6%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 91.73; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 45.4% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd 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: 0.2% of revenue deployed · 14.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $311 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.