Jewish Federation of Arkansas

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
710245512
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
LIttle Rock, AR, USA
Phone
5016633571
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$269,470
Expenses
$260,772
Assets
$2,944,188
Liabilities
$4,950

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sue Weinstein (Co-President)
  • Silvana Berlinski (Co-President)

People named in this filing

  • Sue Weinstein (Co-President)
  • Silvana Berlinski (Co-President)
  • Bruce Thalheimer (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Jewish Federation of Arkansas exists to strengthen, support, and sustain the Jewish Community in Arkansas and to support Jews in need worldwide.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ensuring Jewish Future AR-Youth The Jewish Federation of Arkansas is committed to ensuring that the children and youth of Arkansas have opportunities to meet other Jewish children and are exposed to Jewish learning. The Federation implements special programs to make sure that Jewish children throughout Arkansas benefit from the national PJ Library Program, which provides free books to children to help build Jewish identity and understanding. The PJ library program serves over 100 children ages 6 months to 8 years in Arkansas. In addition, camp and educational scholarships are provided to youth and young adults to instill a love and understanding of the heritage of the Jewish people. The Federation provides a grant to the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville for a class in ancient and modern Jewish languages including Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic and Yiddish..

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 63
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.4%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 28
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 76.6%; rating input score 77; 47th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.29; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 27.4% of revenue deployed · 28.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 25 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.