Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island

Overview

Mission

JCDSRI: Empowering our children today to design tomorrow’s world. The Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island prepares confident, collaborative, critical thinkers for the twenty-first century. At JCDSRI, **academic excellence and joyful learning go hand in hand**. Our program reflects the best practices in education – integrating rigorous academics, inquiry-based learning, and individualized support within a nurturing, inclusive, values-driven environment. The integration of general and Jewish studies, along with the study of Hebrew language, deepens students’ cognitive flexibility, critical thinking, and cultural understandings. Our educators – extraordinary educators who combine deep expertise with remarkable longevity at our school – continually innovate to meet each learner’s needs. Reports from the schools our alumni attend consistently affirm that **JCDSRI students excel acr.

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 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.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 53
• Transparency & Controls: 92
• Accountability: 90
• Sustainability: 54
• 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: 51% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.6M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 21 people listed
• Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
• Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors
• Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
• 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.