Jewish Family & Children's Service
Legal name: Jewish Family & Children's Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223124450
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Waltham, MA, United States
- Phone
- 781-647-JFCS (5327)
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Public Foundations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $201,764
- Assets
- $3,308,954
- Liabilities
- $7,229,630
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVEN WEIL (PRESIDENT)
- LEWIS J PEARLSON (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- KIMBERLY CREEM (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANDREW PEARLSTEIN (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- GAIL SCHULMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- GAIL SCHULMAN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $429,407 total reported compensation
- ELAYNE WEINSTEIN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $237,919 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide exceptional human services from infancy to old age, guided by Jewish traditions of social responsibility, compassion, and respect for all members of the community. Do you want to play a critical role in furthering our mission of providing exceptional human services, guided by Jewish traditions of social responsibility, compassion, and respect for all members of the community? JF&CS employs people of all faiths and backgrounds who seek to play a part in helping others navigate life's challenges. Employees are our greatest asset Our work environment supports an organizational culture in which employee health and well-being are a top priority. By promoting and maintaining a healthy workplace, we encourage employees to live healthier lives both at work and at home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Holds title to the principal operating facility and headquarters of jewish family and children's service, inc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.4; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.18; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $429K · 36 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 5 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.