Community Alliance for Jewish-Affiliated Cemeteries
Legal name: Greater Middlesex Jewish Cemetery Management Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223371747
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- South River, NJ, USA
- Phone
- (914) 574 7057
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,933
- Expenses
- $7,002
- Assets
- $781
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL WASSERMAN (PRESIDENT)
- ALAN KANE (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL WASSERMAN (PRESIDENT)
- ALAN KANE (PAST PRESIDENT)
- RACHEL SILVERSTEIN (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Help direct efforts to ensure no Jewish cemetery is forgotten. 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
To own, manage, operate and maintain, under jewish auspices, those jewish cemeteries whose existing non-profit cemetery organizations, exempt from federal income taxation under the u.s. Internal revenue code, are unable to provide for the future management, operation and maintenance of cemeteries for which they are responsible.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.5%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 49.7%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.6%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 40.5% of revenue deployed · 49.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.