Jewish Family Services of Northeastern New York
Legal name: Jewish Family Services of Northeastern New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141338308
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albany, NY, United States
- Phone
- 5184828856
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,571,171
- Expenses
- $1,544,120
- Assets
- $1,086,683
- Liabilities
- $117,067
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANE GINSBURG (PRESIDENT &)
Highest reported compensation
- JANE GINSBURG (PRESIDENT &): $108,171 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enrich the lives of individuals and families from all backgrounds and strengthen the community by providing compassionate, collaborative human services, guided by Jewish values. JFS provides counseling and essential support services and fosters independence and healthy aging. Our mission is amplified by volunteers and sustained by donors, ensuring that support for our community is always within reach. See a complete list of our services: **JFS At-a-Glance** In 2025, we provided 29,221 highly individualized support for people of all ages, all faiths and all walks of life. See our Impact Report **here**. In 2025, we provided 29,221 highly individualized support for people of all ages, all faiths and all walks of life. JFS serves individuals and families in 15 Upstate New York counties. **Here** is a map of our catchment area. Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jewish family services (jfs) provides a continuum of support for people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the greater capital region and has for over 170 years. Clients seek jfs services for trusted support and guidance and are met with both compassionate and professional care to ensure they remain independent and confident in their current positions, access community services and resources, maintain their quality of life, and stay connected. The community turns to jfs's dedicated team for mental health resilience, aging-in-place support and essential needs programs. Each of these three pillars are managed by licensed and professional staff, with funding through individual and corporate philanthropy, grants, contracts and fees. Mental health resilience services are provided for individuals and families of all ages and backgrounds including special initiatives for youth, teens and older adults, specialized occupational therapy for emotional wellness and pastoral care. Aging-in-place programs include information and guidance, benefits and health care advocacy, holocaust survivor assistance, home safety assessments and modifications; social, education and wellness programs and friendly visitation. Essential needs services include transportation to medical and personal appointments, food security through home delivered meals and grocery shopping and food and housing security assistance. Jfs does what it does driven by jewish values, not because all clients are jewish. In fact, 2/3 of jfs clients are not jewish. Clients span all ages, with 3/4 over the age of 60 and come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds reflective of the capital region communities. Many clients served have limited incomes and reside in lower-income housing. Jfs seeks and welcomes philanthropic support to ensure all clients can be served, regardless of financial capacity and is grateful to its many donors who enable jfs to continue its tradition of providing the best in compassionate human services.
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
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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 1.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.1% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.