Shalom Path Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821491486
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
8185157899
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Judaism
Affiliation
Judaism

Reported finances

Revenue
$28,387
Expenses
$27,286
Assets
$2,166
Liabilities
$1,610

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • K DORIT GAINES (CEO & SECRETARY)

People named in this filing

  • STEPHEN GAINES (CFO)
  • K DORIT GAINES (CEO & SECRETARY)
  • DARREN SCHLECTER (Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

TO PROVIDE career counseling, life coaching and financial assistance to promote self-sufficiency within the Jewish community.

What it reported doing in 2025

'Life Journey' is a program to improve the quality of career choices for our applicants. The dedicated members of our team are comprised of a Ph.D in Neuropsychology, a Masters in Educational Psychology, a prominent Rabbi with special expertise in counseling and education, and a successful businessman with 55 years of corporate experience. Our experts employ all the tools available in their field of expertise to assist our clients, free of charge. 'Golden Bridge' is a program for which provides monetary assistance to qualified individuals who are facing financial obstacles preventing them from reaching their career goals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 56% for direct work, and 44% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.5%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 61.9%; rating input score 62

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -35.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -32.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.5% of revenue deployed · 61.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.