Jewish Federation of Greater Rockford
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362167845
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rockford, IL, United States
- Phone
- 815-399-5497
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,053
- Expenses
- $94,595
- Assets
- $330,922
- Liabilities
- $230
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Goldie Pekarsky (Executive Director)
- Sherry Dreyfuss (President)
- James Gesmer (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Goldie Pekarsky (Executive Director)
- Sherry Dreyfuss (President)
- James Gesmer (Past President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve, protect, enrich and enhance the well-being and cooperation of Jews in the greater Rockford area in Israel and throughout the world. To promote, among all area residents, the Jewish values of caring and compassion (chesed), healing the world (tikkun olam) and social justice (tzedekah) through pro-active education and outreach.
What it reported doing in 2025
Jewish programming. Speakers, Holocaust Remembrance, childrensprogramming, Holiday food baskets for seniors, backpacks for high schoolseniors, gift baskets for new babies, etc. Several hundred benefit.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and total assets are large relative to annual expenses, but may not be spendable cash. 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: 14
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.8%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 20
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.5; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 10.8% of revenue deployed · 20.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- 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 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.