YBH of Passaic

Legal name: Passaic Hebrew Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
221659600
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Passaic, NJ, United States
Phone
973-777-0735
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Primary, Elementary Schools
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,735,348
Expenses
$13,181,580
Assets
$10,552,440
Liabilities
$8,717,624

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mark Lewin (Executive Director)
  • Gary Snitow (President)
  • Yanky Wurtzel (Vice President of Public Relations)
  • D J Alter (Vice President of Ways & Means)
  • Naftali Perlowitz (Vice President of Operations)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kenneth Schwartz (Principal): $190,000 total reported compensation
  • Benjamin Perlstein (Associate Principal): $150,000 total reported compensation
  • Mark Lewin (Executive Director): $145,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

YBH of Passaic, a N-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with humanity and sincerity in every ones life, and believes in the centrality of Eretz Yisroel for every Torah Jew.

What it reported doing in 2024

YBH of Passaic, a N-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with humanity and sincerity in every aspect of one's life, and believes in the centrality of Eretz Yisroel for every Torah Jew. YBH's incomparable professional staff of Rebbeim, Moros, teachers, and administration is headed by our Menahel, Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz. Rabbi Schwartz is known as a proactive and effective leader and mechanech who recognizes the importance of building trusting relationships with all stakeholders - fellow administrators, faculty, parents, and most importantly, the children. Rabbi Schwartz is complemented by Associate Menahel Rabbi Binyomin Perlstein, Limudei Kodesh Girls Division Principal Mrs. Chana Frumit Stern, Elementary School General Studies Principal Mrs. Adrienne Shlagbaum, Middle School General Studies Principal Rabbi Yaakov Rabinowitz, and Early Childhood Director Mrs. Perele Mendlowitz YBH is privileged to have two distinguished Roshei Yeshiva, Rav Hershel Schachter, Shlita, and Rav Mordechai Willig, Shlita, who serve as Morei Derech to the yeshiva. Rav Schachter and Rav Willig guide and advise the yeshiva regarding Piskei Halacha, Hashkafa, and overall Chinuch policy. The yeshiva is housed in a new, state of the art campus that features a lavish setback from the street, providing a secure and pleasant learning environment. The boys and girls divisions are housed in separate wings of the spacious facility, which also includes a Beis Medrash, library, laboratory, lunchroom/auditorium and gymnasium. For additional recreation there is an indoor play area for the Pre-School, two outdoor play areas for our younger students and a basketball court for our older students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 86% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 76.4%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 76.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.