Jewish Family Service of San Diego
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951644024
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- (858) 637-3210
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,143,304
- Expenses
- $85,633,823
- Assets
- $102,734,370
- Liabilities
- $20,242,715
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL HOPKINS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL HOPKINS (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $563,892 total reported compensation
- DANA TOPPEL (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $551,859 total reported compensation
- BERNADETTE GRIGGS (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $274,285 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jewish Family Service partners with people of all backgrounds to build stable and dignified lives; together, it creates a stronger and healthier community where everyone can thrive. The agency adopts a new name, Jewish Social Service Agency, and expands the sense of the agency’s mission as one of service. It continues to help with refugees and the elderly, while also offering counseling to support the day-to-day problems of living. 1962-Present: Jewish Family Service (JFS) The agency assumes a new name, Jewish Family Service. The name signifies three core elements of its work: (1) Informed by Jewish history and values, (2) putting family at the center of its work, and (3) valuing the service of volunteers, as well as professional staff.
What it reported doing in 2024
Basic needs and stabilityjfs offers a full spectrum of integrated services through a holistic program delivery model that provides emergency and supplemental food programs, comprehensive aging and wellness services (including transportation, home-delivered meals, and social and wellness centers), holocaust survivor support programs, case management, parent education and support, housing resources for the homeless, poverty alleviation, refugee and immigration resources, and crisis intervention. Jfs is a place where jewish culture and values are celebrated in service to both the jewish community and the community at large with the fewest possible barriers to service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 79.7% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $73.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $564K · 26 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.1M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.