Met Council

Legal name: Jewish Community Council Service Commission

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133089944
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New York, NY, United States
Phone
212-453-9500
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
In-Home Assistance
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$-856
Expenses
$100
Assets
$6,123,927
Liabilities
$5,241,531

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LINDA SPITZER (PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID GREENFIELD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID GREENFIELD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $689,824 total reported compensation
  • PHILIP KIBEL (CFO): $339,035 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Met Council is America’s largest Jewish non-profit dedicated to fighting poverty. We run the largest kosher food network in America. We serve all who are hungry while specializing in the provision of emergency food that meets the cultural and religious dietary needs of food insecure kosher- and halal-observant households. Our digital food pantry, Market by Met Council, is taught as a Harvard Business School case study in nonprofit innovation. In recent years, we have dramatically expanded our services to meet the needs of our clients, with our food program alone currently serving more than 205,000 people each month through our emergency food network of over 200 pantries. Our Mission.

What it reported doing in 2024

Providing healthcare to the elderly.on april 30, 2015, certain intangible assets of jccsc were sold. On that date, the entity ceased providing home care services. The home care entities now are pursuing collections and addressing outstanding liabilities and legal and regulatory obligations.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -111.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 61,239.27; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.86; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 118,742%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -40.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $690K · 3 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 29 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.