Arizona · Nonprofit
MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY
MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,990 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $457k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $-552846
What Menachem Mendel Academy does
Mission
The purpose of this charity is to educate the youth through the torah to become educated, skill-oriented leaders passionate about making the world a better place. Achieving the goal is accomplished by a daily curriculum followed throughout the school week. Daily curriculum and hours are found in the schools handbook and on the schools website, both enclosed for reference. A team of teachers and upper management coordinate2 with one another daily to accomplish the purpose of the organization. Each are devoted to the education of the youth through the torah which is shown through the time and effort put into the organization and outside services. The founder of the organization allocates over 70% of his time to the organization in efforts to ensure the quality of education is upheld to the standards agreed upon. Each activity shown in the curriculum furthers the exempt purpose by providing a well-rounded formal education to implement learning, spiritual wellness and life skills to each s
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school provides elementary school education through the torah for grades 1-6
$174,455 spentof which $50,000 as grants$168,879 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $174,455.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $156k to $1k (−99%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 16% · 2023 19% · 2024 9% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
112% of MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mordechai Ben-Shabat
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $147k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY?
- MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,990 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $152,990 in grants to MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENACHEM MENDEL ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing