Gordon JCC Nashville

Legal name: Jewish Community Center of Nashville

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
620475746
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Nashville, TN, United States
Phone
615-356-7170
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,991,726
Expenses
$6,422,044
Assets
$34,157,452
Liabilities
$1,174,523

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEREMY BROOK (PRESIDENT)
  • DARA FREIBERG (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • CINDEE GOLD (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • EVAN NAHMIAS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JESSE FELD (EXEC DIRECTOR (START 5/24)): $116,701 total reported compensation
  • ANITA HOWARDS (DIR. OF FINANCE/ASSISTANT): $99,746 total reported compensation
  • LISA CORIANO (INTERIM ED (END 4/24)): $65,577 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 Gordon JCC is a special place that welcomes all, builds community, and provides excellent programs rooted in Jewish values to enrich the mind, body, and spirit. Lead the Gordon JCC’s fundraising strategy through donor engagement, grants, sponsorships, and special events while strengthening philanthropic support across the community. View Job Description Email Résumé Fitness. Serve as a welcoming leader at the outdoor pool while overseeing front desk and concessions operations, member service, and daily staff support. View Job Description Email Résumé Aquatics. Support member service, operations, policy enforcement, and cleanliness in the Fitness Center. View Job Description Email Résumé Camp Davis & Children’s Services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Jewish community center of nashville provides the following program services: early childhood education, care giving and nourishing children from age 6 weeks to 5 years of age.senior services providing social development, programming, and needs with structured and unstructured activities for ages 65 and up.health and personal wellness programming for the health and recreational needs of the membership.summer day camp for children 5 to 14 years to give them the experience of an outdoor summer camp. Indoor and outdoor pool serving all ages all year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $16.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.2%; rating input score 98; 34th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.32; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 32 people listed
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.