Jewish Communities of Vermont
Legal name: Jewish Communities of Vermont Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471138416
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Burlington, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8024484232
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,207
- Expenses
- $181,854
- Assets
- $13,103
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rabbi Tobie Weisman (Executive Director;Director PJ Library of Vermont)
People named in this filing
- Rabbi Tobie Weisman (Executive Director;Director PJ Library of Vermont)
- Arielle Sabot (Teen Coordinator)
- Alison Hill (Chavurah Coordinator)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community, Youth, Family and Teen programs provided in person and online through events, concerts, retreats, workshops and through online newsletters. PJ Library in VT Monthly Book Program sends books to enrolled children being raised Jewish in Vermont.
What it reported doing in 2024
PJ Library in VT Monthly Book Program sends books to enrolled children being raised Jewish in VT. Community, Youth, Family and Teen programs provided in person and online through events concerts retreats workshops and through online newsletters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.3%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 21%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 21.3% of revenue deployed · 21% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.