Jewish Federation of Waco & Central Tx
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741167963
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Waco, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2547721451
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,744
- Expenses
- $117,026
- Assets
- $190,157
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Judith Hersh (President)
- Abbye Silver (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Betty Bauer (Board Member)
- Judith Hersh (President)
- Dan Barish (Board Member)
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 further the welfare of the Waco and Central Texas Jewish Community and to plan for the philanthropic, social, cultural, and educational advancement of the Jewish Community at large
What it reported doing in 2025
Charitable services for Jewish communities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 0
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: 31.9%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $244 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.