Jewish Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430681477
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144325700
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,082,476
- Expenses
- $25,556,874
- Assets
- $79,115,598
- Liabilities
- $3,725,782
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
42 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVEN ROSENZWEIG (PRESIDENT AND CEO (BEG DEC. 2024))
- LYNN WITTELS (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LYNN WITTELS (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $248,086 total reported compensation
- JULIE GIBBS (CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER): $202,337 total reported compensation
- NICOLE HAWKINS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $189,902 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The st. Louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.
What it reported doing in 2024
Early childhood education - the jcc early childhood center, in partnership with our families, is committed to providing quality care and education that embraces the development of children's mind, body and soul. We stimulate the minds of young children through an innovative and individualized curriculum implemented by a well-trained staff in a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment. Children develop their bodies and are encouraged to adopt healthy lifestyle habits through a physical education program that utilizes the best of the jcc's resources in fitness, recreation, and aquatics. The soul is nurtured through living jewish values and jewish experiences in an environment that appreciates and respects the diversity of the children and their families participating in our program. Recognizing that not all families can afford high quality care and education for their children, the jcc provided significant financial assistance to families in need. Both facilities are accredited by Missouri voluntary accreditation and utilize the project construct curriculum.
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 98% 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
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: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
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: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 79.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $20.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $248K · 42 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.