Jewish Community Association of Greater Phoenix
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453910992
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4806991717
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,026,397
- Expenses
- $7,700,153
- Assets
- $34,343,617
- Liabilities
- $6,165,545
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD KASPER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RICHARD KASPER (CEO): $283,440 total reported compensation
- GAIL BAER (CHF DEVELOPM): $233,372 total reported compensation
- SHERYL QUEN (VP, COMMUNIT): $143,299 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To energize and sustain jewish life and leadership throughout greater phoenix, in israel, and around the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our objectives are to: serve as a catalyst and incubator for the delivery of new, meaningful, and impactful programs that anticipate and respond to the immediate and longer-term needs of a thriving jewish community; act as an anchor of jewish involvement in the community by providing an inclusive space for affiliated and non-affiliated jews to connect with the community and each other and identify and fulfill gaps in program offerings in the community when appropriate for us to do so based on positioning and capacity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th 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: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 36th 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: 4.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.46; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $283K · 8 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.