Partners in Torah
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270000414
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2021
- Location
- Passaic, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 9732213650
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,307,450
- Expenses
- $1,711,651
- Assets
- $1,749,895
- Liabilities
- $46,270
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELLIOT GEWIRTZ (CEO)
- AUDREY JACOBS (President)
Highest reported compensation
- ELLIOT GEWIRTZ (CEO): $218,668 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER H DUDZINSKI (COO): $127,733 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Mission To shape the Jewish future by facilitating meaningful one-on-one connections between Jews of diverse backgrounds, making Judaism accessible, relevant, and deeply personal. Partners in Torah is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit. EIN: 27-0000414 Privacy policy Terms of service. Why one-to-one? Studying with a partner is interactive and dynamic, and leads to something unachievable through passive learning — authentic, long-term friendships. These unscripted conversations forge connections that enrich the lives of both students and mentors.
What it reported doing in 2024
Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism, fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewish community, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. To date, over 74,000 men and women from 39 countries have been brought together by partners in torah to discover a richness in judaism they didnt know existed. For many, it is their lifeline to judaism.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -30.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $219K · 9 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $120K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.