Jewish Federation of Delaware
Legal name: Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510064315
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Wilmington, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3024272100
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,798,418
- Expenses
- $6,301,956
- Assets
- $48,756,097
- Liabilities
- $17,277,196
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SETH J KATZEN (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SETH J KATZEN (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $305,186 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide communities wherever they are, with the skills and knowledge necessary to cope with the complexities and uncertainties of their environment. Jewish Federation of Delaware 101 Garden of Eden Road.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other programs related to addressing issues, meeting needs, and planning for the future. Program activities include educational services for the community, maintenance of the community campus at garden of eden road, and adminsitration of the jewish fund for the future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd 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: 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: 19.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.74; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $305K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $491K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 39 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 40 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.