Torah Academy of Boca Raton
Legal name: Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650788118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL, United States
- Phone
- (561) 465-2200
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,268,167
- Expenses
- $17,709,012
- Assets
- $22,451,930
- Liabilities
- $15,457,003
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RABBI HILLEL FEUERMAN (PRESIDENT)
- DR ALLEN WOLNERMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RABBI ROSS FEINBERG (DEAN): $225,377 total reported compensation
- RABBI CHAIM GLAZER (PRINCIPAL): $167,115 total reported compensation
- DR JORDANA R CARMEL (GENERAL STUDIES PRINCIPAL): $116,931 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Private school providing Judaic (Torah) and secular education for children (preschool through middle school), following state and national curricular standards. Provide an outstanding Judaic Studies curriculum with a focus on skills and text analysis for life-long learning. Offer a fully accredited secular studies program of excellence, following both state and national curricular standards, which incorporates contemporary educational methodology and curricula. Promote a love for and commitment to Eretz Yisroel, the Jewish people and a sense of kinship and unity with Jews throughout the world. Inspire personal and ethical growth through the study and integration of Torah values. Offer a fully accredited secular studies program of excellence, following both state and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Private preschool servicing ages 2-5 as well as elementary school grades 1-5 and middle school grades 6, 7, and 8. State standard curriculum is followed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $225K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.