Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pennsylvania
Legal name: Jewish Community Foundation of Central Pa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352587
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Phone
- 717-409-8220
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,692,536
- Expenses
- $3,301,391
- Assets
- $67,893,486
- Liabilities
- $7,884,086
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- PAULETTE KEIFER (EXECUTIVE DI): $141,398 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 Jewish Community Foundation is a donor-centered charitable agency dedicated to accumulating enduring assets to support the stability and continuity of Jewish life in Central Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The Foundation professionally administers lifetime and testamentary giving plans designed to: Assist individuals in achieving their personal charitable goals in the most tax-advantaged manner; and accumulate permanent, endowed resources for use in supporting special, emergency, and future needs, particularly those not provided for by the Jewish Federation’s annual campaign.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide charitable gift planning services to philanthropists, and financial support through grants, to jewish and non-jewish organizations in the central Pennsylvania region and the general and global jewish and non- jewish communities; provide financial support in the form of grants through charitable endowments and other charitable funds, to nonprofits in the fields of health, welfare, education and religious services, that serve people in need; and manage and administer charitable funds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 89
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.3%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $78.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 79.9%; rating input score 80; 16th 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 71.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.57; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 33.3% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 32 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 31 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.