Jewish Community of Louisville

Overview

Mission

To build and sustain a vibrant, caring, inclusive community rooted in Jewish values. For generations, Jewish communities across North America have raised funds through their annual Federation campaigns. Those funds are distributed to constituent agencies throughout the community that provide services, programs and support to individuals, families and groups working to improve life for all. Here in Louisville, early efforts to raise funds within the Jewish community began around 1922-1923 with a movement to raise funds for a Jewish War Relief Fund with a goal of $150,000 for Kentucky. Louis Cohen directed this initiative. February of 1934 saw the creation of the Louisville Conference of Jewish Organizations and Charles W. Morris was elected chairman of the organization. The C.

Operating model

Revenue model

Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 87
• Transparency & Controls: 71
• Accountability: 91
• Sustainability: 56
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $14.9M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $233K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
• Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 17 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 58/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.