Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274127671
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Providence, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4014214111
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,234,921
- Expenses
- $8,600,133
- Assets
- $15,723,823
- Liabilities
- $2,960,998
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM GREENMAN (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ADAM GREENMAN (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $250,040 total reported compensation
- DANIEL HAMEL (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $132,654 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER ZWIRN (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $122,408 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Supporting and cultivating a connected, strong, and inclusive jewish community. 2025 Donor Report: Special Campaigns 2025 Corporate and Event Sponsors 2025 Jewish Rhode Island Patron Campaign. 2025 Corporate and Event Sponsors 2025 Jewish Rhode Island Patron Campaign 2025 Donor Report: 2024 – 2025 Volunteers. 2025 Jewish Rhode Island Patron Campaign 2025 Donor Report: 2024 – 2025 Volunteers 2025 Donor Report: Dor L’Dor Society. 2025 Donor Report: 2024 – 2025 Volunteers 2025 Donor Report: Dor L’Dor Society 2025 Donor Report: Lion of Judah Endowments.
What it reported doing in 2024
"youth programming, including after-school, school vacation, and summer camp options. Programming serves as a safe space for youth ages 5 to 16. Participants offered a range of experiential and hands-on activities from art and pottery, swimming and basketball to board games, crafts, reading, and cooking, as well as homework and tutorial support available. Regular supplementals include family trivia nights, movies, online games, and additional specialized activities as touchpoints for participation. Additional youth and family programming engages community through a range of activities at the dwares jcc, in collaboration with synagogues, and throughout the state to provide a jewish tilt on fun, holiday celebrations, hands-on crafts, and music. Pj library: a national mail-based jewish literacy and outreach program for families with children ages 6 months through age 10. Children enrolled receive free age-appropriate books with jewish themes on a monthly basis.school vacation and summer camp programs j-cation and j-camp consist of a single campus with specialties designed to incorporate supplemental exposure to daily schedules to ensure a well-rounded summer day camp experience for children up to 16 years of age. Also available is a counselor-in-training program that serves as a training feeder and allows adolescent participation upon aging out of day camp."
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 80% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.9%; rating input score 96; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.83; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $6.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $250K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.