Jewish Family & Children's Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274362143
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2016
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9155813256
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,769
- Expenses
- $201,557
- Assets
- $78,159
- Liabilities
- $22,954
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN T GARCIA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN T GARCIA (PRESIDENT)
- JACOB BARDE (DIRECTOR)
- ELAINE GARCIA (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization that works to improve the quality of life, as mandated by our jewish tradition, which values the stability, growth, and well-being of families and individuals. The purpose of the jewish family & children's service is to provide outpatient mental health counseling services. We will provide individual, couples, family, group, and play therapy. These services are to be provided to anyone in need regardless of religion. The counseling sessions are provided by credentialed mental health counselors in the fields of counseling and/or clinical social work.
What it reported doing in 2016
The jewish family and children's service program provides counseling services to local residents. The program provided approximately 1,300 counseling sessions during 2016.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th 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: 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $166K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2011 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.