Yeshivas Beis Dovid
Legal name: Yeshivas Beis Dovid Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831263309
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Jerusalem, NY, Israel
- Phone
- 02 380 3270 (Israel) / 917 284 9743 (US)
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,768,884
- Expenses
- $1,781,646
- Assets
- $224,095
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- RABBI AVI WIESENFELD (DIRECTOR)
- AARON SCHECHTER (DIRECTOR)
- ROBERT WEISS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yeshivas Beis Dovid is a post-high school yeshiva aiming to give boys an authentic and honest Torah Hashkofa in a warm, down-to-earth environment, encouraging a genuine understanding of spirituality (making G-d a real and important part of our lives). The qualification for being on the Beis Dovid hanhola is primarily a commitment to care for and nurture a boy as if he were one’s own child. As a result the Rebbeim take a very broad and devoted approach to their role providing support and guidance on every possible front. This includes ensuring a boy is settled, happy with accommodation, socially integrated, engaging in his preferred outlets, balanced in his learning. Whether it be on major issues or the finest details in learning or extra-curricular matters. The Rosh Yeshiva Harav Avi Wiesenfeld Shlit’a makes every effort to give every bochur a loving and caring environment, and gives...
What it reported doing in 2024
Support for yeshivas beis dovid in israel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $46.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 41.1%; rating input score 41; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 35.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.