Jewish Community Centers Association of North America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 135599486
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2125324949
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,074,780
- Expenses
- $19,974,494
- Assets
- $40,102,179
- Liabilities
- $4,487,179
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
90 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRAKOW DORON (PRESIDENT & CEO (OUTGOING))
- MAMLET JENNIFER (ACTING CEO)
- SIEGEL ORNA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KRAKOW DORON (PRESIDENT & CEO (OUTGOING)): $676,878 total reported compensation
- MAMLET JENNIFER (ACTING CEO): $468,934 total reported compensation
- FEINSTEIN MICHAEL (CHIEF FIN. & ADMIN. OFFICE): $296,985 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jcc association strengthens jewish life in north america through direct service to affiliate jccs, ym-ywha's and camps and by providing leadership and guidance to the jcc movement. In addition, we serve jewish personnel in the armed forces through jwb jewish chaplains council.
What it reported doing in 2024
Strengthening communities - this program provides signature programs to member jccs in the areas of early childhood education, youth sports, management and governance, recruitment, and programming that strengthens cultural ties with israel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: 9.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 66 of 66 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $677K · 90 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $281K reported
- Consistency: 45 of 46 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 109 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 97 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.