Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
210634489
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Cherry Hill, NJ, USA
Phone
8567519500
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Federated Giving Programs
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$48,809,944
Expenses
$55,346,865
Assets
$11,831,157
Liabilities
$7,584,887

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

Leadership & pay

48 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CAROLINE AUSTIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • IVY BROWN ROVNER (PRESIDENT)
  • JASON LEVINE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER DUBROW WEISS (SECRETARY & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • MISSY WAYNE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SCOTT SCHULMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER DUBROW WEISS (SECRETARY & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $389,912 total reported compensation
  • ODEN KRAUS (JCC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $303,217 total reported compensation
  • GINENE-RAECHEL HAMMER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JFCS): $231,180 total reported compensation

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 Southern New Jersey (JFSNJ), with our family of agencies, cares for those in need, enhances Jewish life, and ensures the continuity of a vibrant Jewish community locally, in Israel and around the world. Why Support Federation? The Federation’s JFund annual campaign, which raises approximately $2.5 million dollars each year, is a key source of funding for everything we do. These unrestricted funds, provided by our generous donors, are necessary to ensure the success of the vital programs and services offered by the Federation and our family of agencies across our five Areas of Impact: Older Adults, Special Needs, Global Connections, Community Engagement, and Family & Youth. JFSNJ is proud to serve a community of approximately 50,000 people living in Camden, Burlington and Gloucester Counties.

What it reported doing in 2024

Older adults programming strives to engage individuals with social, recreational and cultural programming infused with jewish heritage and values. Support services enable these older adults who need assistance to age in place with dignity and respect. Other programming includes working with individuals with special needs to provide them with the opportunity to achieve their highest potential and lead independent and fulfilled lives as members of the community. It also includes advocating for israel and every jewish community around the world to ensure that jewish identity continues to thrive and that the safety, security, and well-being of jews are maintained globally.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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

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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 99
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90.1%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: 88.4%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 31st 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: -13.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 40 of 41 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $49.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $390K · 48 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $796K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 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: 11 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 10 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 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.