Jewish Senior Life
Legal name: Jewish Apartments and Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381873419
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Southfield, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2489674240
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,251,768
- Expenses
- $15,499,019
- Assets
- $2,872,158
- Liabilities
- $1,272,692
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON FISHER (PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN RAZNICK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ALAN STERNFELD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT MARCUS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CAROLYN COHEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NANCY S HEINRICH (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- NANCY S HEINRICH (CEO): $339,233 total reported compensation
- KARA POWERS (CFO - PART YEAR): $202,358 total reported compensation
- DIANNE AZZOPARDI (HR DIRECTOR): $150,746 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit, we nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing Jewish values and celebrating life. Support Our Mission We are here to assist you with any questions you may have. To support our mission, consider making a donation. Your contributions play a vital role in enabling us to continue providing exceptional care and services to older adults in our community. Whether you choose to reach out today or make a donation, your support helps us enhance the quality of life for those we serve. Join us in our commitment to creating a compassionate, vibrant, and caring community for older adults. Donate.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provides 136 affordable apartments to elderly persons. The program also provides support services, including meals, activities and personal services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96.3%; rating input score 96; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 27 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $339K · 37 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 14 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.