The Solomon Schechter School of Queens Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
111803692
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Flushing, NY, USA
Phone
7185919800
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,328,600
Expenses
$9,631,605
Assets
$12,967,545
Liabilities
$2,168,762

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROY MOUSSAIEFF (PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID KALMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • RAFI KALMAN (PRINCIPAL): $321,315 total reported compensation
  • DAVID KALMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $190,791 total reported compensation
  • DAVID MUSHIEV (MIDDLE SCHOOL, SCIENCE): $139,878 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

At schechter queens, we embrace a diverse, multicultural, and multilingual jewish community of students from pre-school through eighth grade, privileged to have New York city as their classroom. Our dedicated, supportive, and warm faculty and staff work together to foster a strong and vibrant community and an excellent academic and jewish environment. Together, they stimulate and cultivate students' creativity, independence, and intellectual curiosity by utilizing cutting-edge pedagogical methods and technologies. Our students are taught to reach their full potential through a dual judaic and secular studies curriculum, rooted in steam (science, technology, engineering, art and math). Together they study torah, modern hebrew, israel, and explore jewish traditions. Schechter queens students build lifelong ties and get to know their community and themselves, graduating with the knowledge and confidence to meet the challenges of high-school and beyond.

What it reported doing in 2024

Schechter queens is a jewish day school servicing the diverse jewish community of queens with a student body of approximately 460 students. The organization has won many prestigious awards for our hebrew and general studies curricula. Our students have won prizes in the nyc board of education science fair having competed successfully with the best and brightest students in the public schools. Our 8th grade graduates are accepted by the finest jewish, secular and specialized nyc high schools. Our students achieve above-average standardized test scores. Our school has a comprehensive library collection of judaic and general studies books enhanced by on-line computers. Several of our teachers have been the recipients of the gruss award for excellence in the teaching of judaic studies. We have state of the art math, science and computer labs with up to date, hands-on programs in each. Our school has received the national solomon schechter award for excellence in judaic studies. Our school uses the tal sela, tal-am and neta hebrew language program, a highly acclaimed, advanced, and sophisticated hebrew language program. Over the years, our students have won numerous awards for contests sponsored by board of jewish education, hebrew spelling bee, essay contest on zionism, bible contest, etc. We employ a full time psychologist and a social worker. We have after school music, art and sports clubs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $890.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $321K · 35 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, 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
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.