Community Alliance for Jewish-affiliated Cemeteries
Legal name: Community Alliance for Jewish-affiliated Cemeteries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562649778
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- (914) 574 7057
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $249,041
- Expenses
- $223,371
- Assets
- $114,731
- Liabilities
- $78,500
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW SCHULTZ (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREW SCHULTZ (CEO): $141,282 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide for the welfare, maintenance, restoration and continuity of new york area jewish cemeteries which are financially at risk and in need of attention. Rabbi Schultz has spent a significant portion of his career as the Executive Director of the Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemeteries (CAJAC), a nonprofit organization responsible for the administration and oversight of nearly 12,000 Jewish graves throughout New York and New Jersey. As part of his portfolio with CAJAC, Rabbi Schultz provides critical assistance to synagogues and Jewish organizations seeking to transition their cemeteries to the model of community-based cemetery management, a hallmark of CAJAC’s work. Rabbi Schultz earned Yoreh Yoreh Semicha from both Kollel Hachsharus L’Rabbanus and Machon Halacha Lemaan Yilmedu. He is presently engaged in advanced rabbinical stud.
What it reported doing in 2024
The restoration and maintenance of numerous jewish cemeteries. Such activity includes countless volunteers to rehabilitate jewish burial grounds needing upkeep and repair. Such activity benefits the larger jewish community and jewish organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $211K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.