Jewish Community Relations Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205631988
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144423871
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $507,349
- Expenses
- $624,125
- Assets
- $1,558,903
- Liabilities
- $32,301
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Cohen (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- David Cohen (Executive Director): $75,385 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) works within the Jewish and broader communities in St. Louis to enhance cooperation with other religious, racial, ethnic, and civic groups; foster a just, democratic and pluralistic society; and promote the security of Israel and Jews everywhere. Guided by Jewish values, the JCRC advocates, educates, collaborates, and mobilizes action on issues important to the Jewish Community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is an association of representatives of 35 local Jewish organizations and concerned individuals. JCRC is designed to promote consensus and cooperation in the Jewish community on issues of common concern on the international, national, state and local levels. JCRC also works to promote understanding and harmonious relations among Saint Louis varied religious, civic and ethnic groups through dialogue, joint programming and coalition activities. JCRC amplifies voices by creating consensus and leading advocacy efforts in the organized Jewish community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -23%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.5; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $452K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.