Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit
Legal name: Jewish Family Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 380691329
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Bloomfield, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2485922300
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,053,174
- Expenses
- $28,986,413
- Assets
- $22,931,870
- Liabilities
- $4,891,208
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
43 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PERRY OHREN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- PERRY OHREN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $267,899 total reported compensation
- YULIYA GAYDAYENKO (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER, OLDER ADULT): $149,163 total reported compensation
- DENA COHEN PETERSON (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER, HEALTH & SAFETY NET): $141,891 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Safety net services - provides family support services, which focuses on helping community members gain self-sufficiency and meet basic needs; provides financial assistance for families for food, housing, utilities, transportation and medical needs; offers benefit access support to navigate government and community resources and successfully qualify for and maintain benefit programs; connects low-income uninsured members of the community to needed health care through navigation and referrals; provides information and referral services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 66% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $64.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 3.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 33 of 33 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $26M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $268K · 43 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8.4M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- 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.
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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.