Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310744786
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Phone
- (513) 469-1188
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,806,711
- Expenses
- $10,694,345
- Assets
- $10,314,957
- Liabilities
- $1,315,177
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cathy Bowers (Vice President)
- Joanne Grossman (President)
- Nancy Steinberg Warren (Immediate Past President)
- Liz Vogel (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Liz Vogel (Chief Executive Officer): $201,605 total reported compensation
- Rabbi Walton (K'vod Connect Rabbi): $135,591 total reported compensation
- Linda Kean (Chief Operating Officer): $124,935 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 strengthens lives and enhances our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. During her life, Stephanie Marks helped more than 11,000 students learn about the Holocaust through programming with the **Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center**. A survivor herself, Marks needed support as she grew older. She found that help—and more—through the services provided Jewish Family Service. OUR LOCATIONS Jewish Family Service. We adhere to the highest standards of professional expertise to support our clients and colleagues. Collaboration We work together to strengthen lives and create positive change in collaboration with our community partners.
What it reported doing in 2024
Aging & Caregiver Services provides case management, counseling, outreach to isolated seniors, therapeutic social programming and caregiver support to help older adults retain their quality of life and age in place successfully. We address the unique needs of clients through our program areas: the Center for Holocaust Survivors, the Russian Jewish Cultural Center, AgeWell Cincinnati, K'vod Connect, and case management and counseling services. Our Adult Day Care offers participants socialization and enrichment and respite for caregivers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 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: 1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $9.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $202K · 28 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $159K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.