Jewish Family & Child Service

Legal name: Jewish Family and Child Service

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930386851
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, United States
Phone
503-226-7079
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,407,240
Expenses
$2,449,726
Assets
$2,546,220
Liabilities
$571,802

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BILL TREUHAFT (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBIN MCCOY (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SUSAN GREENBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SUSAN GREENBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $120,802 total reported compensation
  • LESTER THOMPSON (CFO): $72,346 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To improve the quality of life and self-sufficiency of the Jewish and broader communities throughout the Portland metro area in accordance with Jewish values. JFCS is seeking a creative, organized, and mission-driven part-time Marketing and Events Coordinator to support the agency’s communications, digital content, outreach materials, and event coordination. POSITION OVERVIEW The Marketing and Events Coordinator works under the direction of the Director of Communications & Engagement, who oversees JFCS’s communications strategy, messaging, event planning, and public-facing materials. The Marketing and Events Coordinator provides hands-on support to help ensure communications and events are clear, warm, professional, visually consistent, and aligned with JFCS’s mission and values.

What it reported doing in 2024

Counseling - jfcs's counseling program offers effective, high-quality services to individuals, couples, and families. We value each individual's unique identity, life experience, and social context. Jfcs's priority is to provide confidential support based on trust, empathy, and understanding to ensure clients feel safe, empowered, and able to make progress toward their goals. Jfcs provides one-on-one, group and family counseling formats. Jfcs accepts various commercial and governmental insurances. Jfcs also provides counseling services on a sliding scale at discounted rates for those who don't have insurance options.holocaust survivor services - holocaust survivor services (hss) provides in-home, wraparound support for holocaust survivors to age safely and independently in their homes. Case managers conduct a comprehensive assessment and help clients create a plan of action to address their needs. Our compassionate and experienced staff provides prompt and courteous care, partnering with diverse network of social service agencies and grant partners to meet as many of the community's needs as possible. The services provided include: in-home services such as housekeeping, companionship, meal preparation, and transportation for medical appointments or shopping. In-home personal and nursing care support for individuals who need assistance with critical basic tasks of daily living, including hygiene, medication administration, feeding, dressing and other critical tasks. Emergency assistance for medical, dental, food, housing and other critical financial needs. Case management, care coordination and geriatric care management, including multi-lingual services in russian, english and hebrew to address immediate and long-term needs. Specialized services for holocaust survivors, including reparations, compensation, and social activities.volunteer services jfcs provides significant support for community-based services by providing and managing volunteers to leverage the resources available for services. In addition, jfcs provides volunteers jointly with other community agencies in the jewish community to strengthen services available to the portland community.other programs jfcs also provides additional services to the community which are designed primarily to benefit older members of the community but not exclusively. These services include emergency financial assistance and socialization support for potentially isolated individuals, as well as needs assessment and connection to non-jfcs social services when needed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: -1.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 66.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 14 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $915K reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.