Congregation Achduth Vesholom
Legal name: Jewish Cemetery Association of Fort Wayne Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351527089
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, United States
- Phone
- (260) 744-4245
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,385
- Expenses
- $19,773
- Assets
- $1,119,252
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAN ZWEIG (PRESIDENT/TR)
People named in this filing
- DAN ZWEIG (PRESIDENT/TR)
- JOSH TOURKOW (VICE PRESIDE)
- MICHAEL DICKER (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide a suitable place for the burial of the dead according to the jewish faith; to provide for the ornamentation and protection of such cemetery; to control, regulate and manage the cemetery in accordance with the traditions of judaism and in accordance with law; to maintain funds, accept donations, sell burial privileges and otherwise engage in such transactions involving real and personal property as may be necessary to carry out the objectives of the association set out above; to create and maintain a perpetual care fund for the care and improvement of the lots in which burials have been and are made from time to time, the income of said fund will be used for such purpose; and to perform such other acts and foundations as may be required to carry out the objectives of the cemetery as set out above.
What it reported doing in 2024
Conducted tours to new cemetery staff at local mortuary. Provided burial service for items of jewish ritual. Improved parking for visitors by paving gravel parking lot. Arranged ritual unveilings of new memorial markers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 67.8%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 56.61; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -44.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 11 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.