Jewish Dallas

Legal name: Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
750800654
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
2146155200
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,015,059
Expenses
$12,789,306
Assets
$26,213,211
Liabilities
$9,277,566

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

Leadership & pay

41 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • IGOR ALTERMAN (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • IGOR ALTERMAN (PRESIDENT/CEO): $284,566 total reported compensation
  • MORDECHAI HARRIS (CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER): $203,750 total reported compensation
  • MELISSA REDDICK (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $194,820 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 help ensure the continuity of a strong and vibrant Jewish community in Dallas, Israel, and throughout the world. Join us to support a strong and vibrant community Your contribution sustains vital programs providing assistance to those facing adversity, strengthens Jewish education, fosters cultural enrichment, and cultivates a sense of belonging that transcends generations. Your support actively shapes the future of our community, ensuring that our values endure and our traditions thrive. Pledge Your Support. Your contribution sustains vital programs providing assistance to those facing adversity, strengthens Jewish education, fosters cultural enrichment, and cultivates a sense of belonging that transcends generations.

What it reported doing in 2024

Missions, israel and overseas: the mission, israel and overseas program works to build awareness and momentum in dallas around the case for israel and overseas by maintaining living connections between dallas and jewish communities in israel and around the world. Israel and overseas initiatives create meaningful program, travel, and engagement opportunities for the dallas community. Missions include programs and trips sponsored by the federation to explore jewish life in other communities, israel and other countries, and to address ongoing communcal needs by recruiting and educating young men and women to be active and effective participants in the jewish community in the years to come.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% 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 the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: 57.6%; rating input score 58; 12th 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 35 of 35 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $10.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $285K · 41 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $890K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 45 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 39 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 37/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.