Temple Beth-El

Legal name: Temple Beth-el Endowment Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
845063935
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
Location
Providence, RI, United States
Phone
(401) 331-6070
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,218
Expenses
$5,794
Assets
$828,647
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FRED ROSENBERG (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • FRED ROSENBERG (PRESIDENT)
  • HAROLD ISRAEL (SECRETARY)
  • BRUCE WERNER (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Temple Beth-El is a caring Jewish Community that warmly welcomes and engages members by providing a rich variety of religious, spiritual, educational, and communal opportunities. Temple Beth-El is committed to Jewish life and the evolving principles of Reform Judaism. CODE OF VALUES AND ETHICS. CODE OF VALUES AND ETHICS BY-LAWS Throughout the year, Temple Beth-El welcomes members to weekly _Shabbat_ services, holy day prayers, and daily Minyan. From the celebration of new life to the saying of Kaddish, we are your spiritual family for honoring life cycle events. We help prepare and celebrate _B Mitzvah_ services and receptions, Confirmations, weddings,_brit_ and baby namings, and sitting _shiva_. While we maintain a mind toward the future of Judaism, we also honor and celebrate the history of our people.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization raised money to help support beth-el jewish congregation of chicago

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.3%; rating input score 15
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 91%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 143.02; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -60.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 15.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.