Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County
Legal name: Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222119902
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Margate, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 609.822.1108
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,340,749
- Expenses
- $16,455,954
- Assets
- $8,835,142
- Liabilities
- $4,959,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREA STEINBERG (CEO)
- MELISSA ROSENBLUM (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANDREA STEINBERG (CEO): $292,922 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JFS motivates and empowers people to realize their potential to achieve personal goals and enhance their quality of life through a wide range of supports regardless of their religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or background. Jewish Family Service of Atlantic & Cape May Counties (JFS) encourages strong families, thriving children, healthy adults, vital seniors, and strong communities. With dozens of program areas, we specialize in counseling, mental health services, homeless programs, vocational services, adult and older adult services, and also host an on-site food pantry. We impact more than 15,000 lives throughout Atlantic and Cape May Counties each year. Mission Statement Jewish Family Service motivates and empowers people to realize their potential to achieve personal goals and enhance their quality of life through a wide range of supports regardless of...
What it reported doing in 2024
Outpatient counseling, vocational counseling, service to older adults with mental issues, disaster assistance, family and youth services with mental issues, integrated case management for mental health patients, intensive home care case management, project new chance for family services, assistance to persons receiving tanf\ga assistance to direct to employment with mental health issues, resident support services to the homeless, homeless program for mental health services, in-mate reentry for mental health incarcerated situations and assisting incarcerated persons whom incurred minor offenses with mental health issues to provide jail diversion services. Many services provided to persons and families with mental health and crisis related issues. Also conducting and covid relief pgm for those in need.
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 92% 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.
- 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: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 87.4% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $293K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $942K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.