Jewish Collaborative Services
Legal name: Jewish Family Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050258888
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2017
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017
- Location
- Providence, RI, United States
- Phone
- (401) 331-1244
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,680,012
- Expenses
- $2,893,149
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFREY PADWA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN MINIOR (EXECUTIVE DI): $121,305 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a continuum of support services, guided by Jewish values, that strengthen the well-being of our community members.
What it reported doing in 2017
Adoption services - jfsri provides comprehensive services to meet the needs of birth parents, adoptive families and children. (expenses 154,645. Including grants of 0.) (revenue 133,200.) kosher nutrition program - provides kosher meals at a congregate mealsite where individuals are able to socialize and participate in daily activities, receiving a hot kosher meal and delivers kosher meals to the homebound while providing a daily safety-net to this vulnerable population. (expenses 173,074. Including grants of 0.) (revenue 0.) kesher program - provides congregational social work to members of area temples and synagogues. (expenses 89,041. Including grants of 0.) (revenue 3,750.) provision of lecture series. (expenses 17,808. Including grants of 0.) (revenue 13,450.) other programs designed to provide family services and information to elderly. (expenses 214,131. Including grants of 0.) (revenue 1,044.)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The required major-donor schedule is missing or incomplete and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: No; rating input score 0
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Major donor itemization scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.