Jewish Federation of El Paso & Las Cruces

Overview

Mission

Serving the Jewish Community by engaging, connecting, supporting and celebrating Jewish life, values and culture in the greater El Paso and Las Cruces area, Israel and beyond. The Jewish Relief Society, established with the help of Rabbi Roth, helped those affected by the depression with interest-free loans. The Jewish Community Council of El Paso (the present-day Jewish Federation of El Paso) was born of this group in 1937. Women were also becoming much more active in politics and in social causes. The old-time Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Societies, based on charitable works, had evolved into more modern groups like the National Council of Jewish Women and Hadassah whose mission was to fulfill their congregations' educational and fund-raising needs. They also reached out to the less fortunate in their communities. The first president of NCJW in El Paso was Mrs. Max.

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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

SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 69
• Transparency & Controls: 72
• Accountability: 84
• Sustainability: 57
• Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
• Where the money goes: 71.9% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $489K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 7 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: 6 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 5 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.