Edlavitch DCJCC
Legal name: Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington Dc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521398151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, United States
- Phone
- (202) 518-9400
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,590,808
- Expenses
- $14,490,018
- Assets
- $32,437,529
- Liabilities
- $7,444,218
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
64 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHANNA CHANIN (PRESIDENT)
- EVA DAVIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MEREDITH MARGOLIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JANIS SCHIFF (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER ZWILLING (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER ZWILLING (CEO): $306,656 total reported compensation
- CRAIG MINTZ (FORMER CFO (UNTIL 5/31/2024)): $144,037 total reported compensation
- HAYLEY FINN (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $123,213 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Guided by our Jewish values, history, and traditions, the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center (EDCJCC) builds and strengthens community by engaging individuals and families of all ages and backgrounds through cultural, educational, recreational, and social responsibility programs. The staff and leadership of the Center are a team. We seek to use the strengths of each of our members to reach our goals. We help each other. 7 Excellence. The EDCJCC holds a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and repairing the cracks we see in ourselves and our society as a core value. As an organization that strives to build community, it is crucial that everyone entering through our doors feels safe, respected, and honored. Learn More volunteers gardening in a city.
What it reported doing in 2024
Theater j - a nationally-renowned, professional theater that celebrates, explores, and grapples with the complexities and nuances of both the jewish experience and the universal human condition. Hailed by the Washington post as "the most influential jewish theater company in the nation," theater j has received over 75 helen hayes nominations and ten helen hayes awards. During the 2024-2025 season, theater j produced a full slate of professional productions including how to be a korean woman by sun mee chomet, prayer for the french republic by joshua harmon, out of character by ari'el stachel and produced in association with mosaic theater company, your name means dream by jose rivera and produced in association with theatreworks hartford, the berlin diaries by andrea stolowitz. A new initiative for families, theater jr., featured a production of tiny lights: tales for chanukah by aaron posner and aaron weaver that welcomed school groups and families with young children to some of their first theater experiences. Our 2024-2025 season served more than 18,000 audience members and participants through performances, student matinees, in-school residencies, workshops, and community engagement programs. Theater j continued to develop and commission new plays initiatives such as expanding the canon and the yiddish theater lab. Theater j further advanced access and equity by providing free and reduced-cost tickets to underserved populations and offering ada accommodations at all performances, while reaching over 2,000 students through education programming, strengthening community dialogue, cultural understanding, and arts participation throughout the region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 55 of 55 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 12 filed program accomplishments · $12.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $307K · 64 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $680K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.