Jewish Family Service
Legal name: Jewish Family Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060646695
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Fairfield, CT, United States
- Phone
- (203) 366-5438
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,451
- Expenses
- $84,360
- Assets
- $78,695
- Liabilities
- $31,505
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harvey Paris (President)
- Barbara Paris (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Eric Newman (Board Chairman)
- Harvey Paris (President)
- Barbara Paris (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve and strengthen the quality of life of individuals and families in the community, in accordance with Jewish values. We could not have existed for these many years without the generous support of our community. Government support waxes and wanes, grants are granted and cancelled, but, when push comes to shove, our community supports our mission. Fully one third of our budget comes from individual donations. Please join the close to one thousand of your friends and neighbors who support us by: Annually contributing amounts of less than $180 – our Friends. Please join the close to one thousand of your friends and neighbors who support us by: Annually contributing amounts of less...
What it reported doing in 2024
Counseling-Provides short term telephone professional counseling and information and referral services to individuals of all ages in need of assistance in coping with occurrences of daily life. Also provides financial and Holiday assistance to aforementioned individuals and families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.3%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th 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: 20.3% of revenue deployed · 18.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.