Bnai Jacob Cemetery Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821697362
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Phoenixville, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6107164362
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,676
- Expenses
- $11,006
- Assets
- $249,828
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephen Skopp (President)
People named in this filing
- Stephen Skopp (President)
- Jerry Neumann (Secretary)
- Michael Trachtenberg (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
"The primary exempt purpose of the B'nai Jacob Cemetery Association, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, is the operation of a cemetery for the burial of: a) members of Congregation B'nai Jacob of the Jewish faith (free of charge); b) those members of the Congregation who are not Jewish but are part of a Jewish family (free of charge); and c) extended family members of congregants as well as non-members (who are charged for the burial plot). In addition, all those buried in the cemetery are charged a one-time perpetual care fee for the ongoing maintenance and preservation of their burial plot and the surrounding cemetery property."
What it reported doing in 2025
We average 3-5 Burials per year. We sell an average of 4 burial plots per year. We average 4 funerals per year of Congregants. We maintain the cemetery with regular maintenance, grass cutting, cleanup of leaves, snow removal, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 70% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.7%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 81.9%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.7; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.