Jafco

Legal name: Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464021099
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Sunrise, FL, United States
Phone
954-749-7230
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Children's, Youth Services
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,629,393
Expenses
$1,207,111
Assets
$7,684,891
Liabilities
$44,796

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JILL LAPENSOHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MATTHEW C LEVIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (BEG. 07/2025))
  • ROBERT ETZKIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (THRU 02/2025 - 06/2025))
  • SARAH FRANCO (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (END. 01/2025))

Highest reported compensation

  • ROBERT ETZKIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (THRU 02/2025 - 06/2025)): $239,268 total reported compensation
  • MAHER MALAK (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $221,221 total reported compensation
  • JILL LAPENSOHN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $179,674 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

JAFCO’s mission is to provide care, safety and support to children and their families within the Jewish community and beyond who are impacted by abuse, neglect, trauma, or developmental disabilities…giving every child a place to belong. JAFCO provides a full continuum of high-quality services including foster care, adoption, family preservation, mentoring, independent living and developmental disability programs. The JAFCO Children’s Village, consisting of an Emergency Shelter and six Group Homes, is one of the most unique and innovative programs in the nation. The JAFCO Children’s Ability Center supports families raising children with developmental disabilities by providing fami.

What it reported doing in 2025

Jewish adoption and family care options, inc. Provides foster care and adoption services in the greater philadelphia area. The organization provides an entire continuum of programs and services for at-risk children and those with developmental disabilities and their families including: family preservation/case management services for at risk children and families, in home support services, 24-hour on-call crisis support for families, supervised visitation as ordered by the court, support groups for parents and siblings of children with developmental disabilities, and social and life skills training for children with developmental disabilities. During the current year, the organization served 199 individuals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Affiliate-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
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 available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 19.2%; rating input score 19
  • Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $120.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 78.6%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.37; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 40.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 19.2% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $239K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.