Yeshivath Gesher
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471250360
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lawrence, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5167307377
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,306,133
- Expenses
- $2,223,440
- Assets
- $405,904
- Liabilities
- $530,156
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Yisrael Gralla (Executive Administrator): $166,538 total reported compensation
- Eva Bodner (Director of Education): $124,062 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Yeshivath Gesher is a local Jewish School whose primary purposes are to strengthen the religious, moral and intellectual welfare of its members, their families and the community. The Yeshiva also promotes the principles of the Orthodox Jewish faith which include maintaining a synagogue and place of Jewish worship, as well as a place of teaching and study of the Jewish faith.
What it reported doing in 2024
In the Summer of 2024, Yeshivath Gesher opened a summer camp to provide additional educational and recreational activities to its students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 3.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.31; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 6 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.