Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh
Legal name: Hillel Jewish University Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 256065236
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 412-621-8875
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,455,849
- Expenses
- $1,478,021
- Assets
- $4,519,768
- Liabilities
- $93,863
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL MARCUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DANIEL MARCUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO): $195,668 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
OUR MISSION: To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. The Board of Governors is responsible for fiscal oversight, providing support for special projects, and ensuring that Hillel JUC functions in accordance with its institutional mission and values. Executive Committee Adrienne Indianer, _Chair_. To enrich the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. OUR VISION: We envision a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel. As the focal point for Jewish campus life for more than 2,200 Jewish undergraduate students (ages 18-22) in Pittsburgh, Hillel Jewish University Center (Hillel JUC) sponsors a wide variety of opportunities to engage in Jewish campus life that acknowledge that Jewish students have a diversity of identities and...
What it reported doing in 2024
Hillel juc provides religious, cultural and social services to more than 2,200 jewish undergraduate college students in the pittsburgh area. Hillel juc staff are committed to enriching the lives of every jewish student with an enduring connection and commitment to jewish life that is both relevant and content-rich. Every experience under the hillel juc umbrella is considered an opportunity for learning and meaningful engagement with judaism: the cycle of the jewish year, cultural traditions, israel, the hebrew language, core texts and values, and global jewish peoplehood. During fiscal year 2025, staff engaged with more than 1,000 students during more than 600 events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 57.6%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 57.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $851K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $196K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $127K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.