JCC Nursery School of State College
Legal name: Jewish Community Center Nursery School of State College Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811239262
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- State College, PA, US
- Phone
- (814) 359-6665
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,799
- Expenses
- $77,987
- Assets
- $65,046
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chad Owens (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Chad Owens (Board President)
- Lauren Cameron (Board Treasurer)
- Sarah Zarzycki (Board Registrar)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a play-based, mixed-age preschool education that incorporates Jewish traditions, is welcoming to all backgrounds, and fosters a sense of community through parent involvement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our school is a part-time nursery school operation, educating children 2 years, 7 months until Kindergarten. In spring 2024, we had 25 children enrolled. For our summer camp program, we enrolled 24 students. We employ 2 teachers during the school year, and 2 teachers during our summer camp program. We rely on a volunteer parent-run board to operate the school. Through our nurturing, play-based program, we equip students with the emotional and academic tools needed to enter Kindergarten and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -75% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 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: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.