Yeshiva Tiferes Yisroel
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112906454
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, United States
- Phone
- 718-258-9006
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,918,708
- Expenses
- $9,038,630
- Assets
- $8,638,573
- Liabilities
- $1,322,336
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Irving Langer (President)
- Segal Eli (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Rabbi Zvi Turk (Rabbi/Principal): $174,716 total reported compensation
- Rabbi Yehuda Jacobson (Board Member): $145,353 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is our goal to produce talmidim that are self confident upstanding ביני תורה capable of making decisions in life based on what is truly the רצון ה. The yeshiva selected outstanding rebbeim and teachers who would instill torah values into the talmidim. we are proud to say that the vision has not changed over the past 4 decades. Mission It is our goal to produce talmidim that are self confident upstanding בני תורה capable of making decisions in life based on what is truly the 'רצון ה. It is our goal to produce talmidim that are self confident upstanding בני תורה capable of making decisions in life based on what is truly the 'רצון ה. Vision.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing educational services and activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 89.7%; rating input score 90; 20th 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 29 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 29 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $506K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.