Friends of the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451451549
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Gladwyne, PA, US
- Phone
- 6108967485
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cemeteries
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,219
- Expenses
- $58,348
- Assets
- $122,806
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM BUCHANAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ADAM BUCHANAN (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT FRIEDMAN (TREASURER)
- MARJI HENDLER (VP AND SECRETARY)
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 mission of the Friends of the Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery is to ensure dignity for those interred at Har Hasetim and their families while honoring the historical, cultural and natural significance of the site. We achieve our mission by working together with volunteers and with the support of community partners primarily through restoration and maintenance of the graves and natural features, sharing the story of the cemetery, and providing access to information about those interred at the site. Goals for 2026.
What it reported doing in 2025
Joe ferrannini, of grave stone matters, continued with his exceptional efforts, completing two additional sections of graves. An area within the cemetery that approximates a finished condition so that visitors and potential donors can see what is possible throughout the entire cemetery has expanded due to joe's efforts. A retaining wall was built below one of the larger sections that joe finished in order to protect his work and stabilize the slope on which the graves sit. Numerous invasive and dead trees were removed and used to create paths in the cemetery. A corporate day of service was used to create water bars to prevent erosion in the cemetery trails. A display kiosk was donated by a member and was installed by joe and adam buchanan at the entrance to the cemetery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: -151.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.1; rating input score 67; 67th 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: -22.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -29.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.