Yeshiva Derech Hatorah
Legal name: Torah Youth Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471648128
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Cleveland Heights, OH, United States
- Phone
- 216-321-1547 (Girls PreK–8th) / 216-382-6248 (Boys PreK–8th) / 216-321-7390 (Gir
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,556
- Expenses
- $38,392
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael A Tohn (President)
- Rabbi Binyamin Blau (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Michael A Tohn (President)
- Steven Rivkin (Director)
- Rabbi Binyamin Blau (Vice President)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yeshiva and Bais Yaakov Derech Hatorah is focused on Limud HaTorah and Chashivous HaTorah, guided by Daas Torah, to raise proud Bnei Torah and Bnos Malachim with Sheifus for Gadlus B’Torah, and to be Mechanech Talmidim and Talmidos in Kovod, Achrayus, and Aliyah in an environment of warmth and Simcha.
What it reported doing in 2019
Approximately fifteen youth were serviced both onsite and at various locations in the Cleveland area in personal and group settings
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95
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: -118.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -30.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2014 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.