Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey
Legal name: Jewish Community Properties Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201484798
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cherry Hill, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 856.751.9500 x1145
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,797,251
- Expenses
- $839,757
- Assets
- $23,480,856
- Liabilities
- $7,133,087
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KC ISDANER (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT E SCHWARTZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JENNIFER DUBROW WEISS (TREASURER): $389,912 total reported compensation
- AMY CLAYMAN (CFO): $228,498 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 Federation of Southern New Jersey (JFSNJ), with our family of agencies, cares for those in need, enhances Jewish life, and ensures the continuity of a vibrant Jewish community locally, in Israel and around the world. Why Support Federation? The Federation’s JFund annual campaign, which raises approximately $2.5 million dollars each year, is a key source of funding for everything we do. These unrestricted funds, provided by our generous donors, are necessary to ensure the success of the vital programs and services offered by the Federation and our family of agencies across our five Areas of Impact: Older Adults, Special Needs, Global Connections, Community Engagement, and Family & Youth. JFSNJ is proud to serve a community of approximately 50,000 people living in Camden, Burlington and Gloucester Counties.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operates and manages real estate and personal property used in connection with and for the charitable purposes and activities of jewish federation of southern New Jersey.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - 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: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.4%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 87.6%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 27.96; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 12.4% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $835K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $390K · 9 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 7 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: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.