The Yaldeinu School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263373908
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7183057137
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,868,111
- Expenses
- $16,922,832
- Assets
- $20,102,899
- Liabilities
- $5,160,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- RIVKA WAKSZUL (EDUCATIONAL): $167,146 total reported compensation
- JACOB BAR-HORIN (CFO): $167,060 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yaldeinu's overarching goal is to help children on the autism spectrum build the fundamental skills necessary to function and thrive in their environments, and maximize the independence of each child. Yaldeinu believes in the potential of the children they serve, and in the intrinsic worth of each child. Yaldeinu works to transform the lives of the children in its care through 1:1 school and vocational services using the evidence-based aba method. Their unique team-based services ensure that all related service and education providers can work together to maximize the potential of each child. Yaldeinu also believes in the importance of supporting families through respite and recreational programming, training and parent education.
What it reported doing in 2024
The yaldeinu school provides education to children that display symptoms consistent with an autistic spectrum diagnosis behavior analysis. The school's main activities include providing special educators, speech- language pathologists and occupational therapists for the children who work together, to design and implement individualized educational programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $15.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $188K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $227K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.