Jewish Family Services of Delaware
Legal name: Jewish Family Services of Delaware Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510097026
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Phone
- 302-478-9411
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Human Services
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,834,004
- Expenses
- $6,634,437
- Assets
- $2,093,485
- Liabilities
- $764,294
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN GUALTIERI (VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE)
- CLINT WALKER (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- RENNA VAN OOT (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RENNA VAN OOT (CEO): $199,158 total reported compensation
- LISA BROOKS (CFO): $127,120 total reported compensation
- SOPHIE NAMUGENYI (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $119,276 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Jewish Family Services of Delaware (JFS) is a place where all members of our community can receive help and support to overcome life’s challenges and cope with difficult situations. JFS is committed to providing the highest quality services available in our area, with compassion and respect for everyone. Our Mission To strengthen individuals, families, and the community by providing counseling and support services. Our Vision.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Jfs' core programming is offered statewide and includes psychotherapy, psychiatry, oncology social work, case management, and crisis alleviation. Our highly trained staff work with children, adolescents, mothers, immigrants, older adults, caregivers, people with cancer, and adults with disabilities, and their families to support them during the most challenging transitions of their lives and help them thrive. Jfs' structure comprises two divisions: therapeutic services and care management services. Jfs' therapeutic services, which includes office-based therapy, community-based therapy, and psychiatry, utilize strength-based approaches and evidence-based therapeutic interventions for individuals, couples, families, and groups. Clinical staff are trained and experienced in treating children, youth, and adults who are coping with mental health issues, substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, and a plethora of other issues: anger management, trauma, grief, adhd, eating disorders, gender issues, borderline personality disorder, self-injury, depression, anxiety, and bi-polar disorder. Psychiatric evaluation and medication management services are available to all jfs clients.
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 95% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -13.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $199K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $199K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.