Har Shalom Center for Jewish Living
Legal name: Congregation Har Shalom
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840754231
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Phone
- 970-223-5191
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $904,614
- Expenses
- $910,880
- Assets
- $1,719,809
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tara Morton (Executive Director)
- Michelle Glyzinski (President)
- Debbie Duffy (Past-President)
Highest reported compensation
- Sally Finestone (Rabbi): $109,296 total reported compensation
- Tara Morton (Executive Director): $66,599 total reported compensation
- Merav Tsubely (Director): $5,423 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enriching the Jewish soul through education, community, culture, prayer, and mitzvot. Creating a Jewish home in Northern Colorado imbued with wisdom, support, Jewish values, spiritual growth, and love Inclusion Statement It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, perspective, identity, and experience to create a well-balanced and vibrant community. At Har Shalom, we are committed to welcoming, respecting, accepting, institutionally supporting, and valuing diverse identities and communities of people. We are a community of Jews by choice and Jews by Birth, LGBTQIA+ Jews, BIPOC Jews, interfaith and adoptive families, and Jews with differing physical abilities. Our community includes Jews from an array of ethnic and spiritual backgrounds who bring a richness to our spir.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jewish education & spiritual worship
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $844K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.