Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington
Legal name: Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020551737
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Fort Belvoir, VA, United States
- Phone
- 202.569.4289 (Art Hessel)
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,789
- Expenses
- $52,556
- Assets
- $83,105
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Zinner (President)
- Marsha Rozenblit (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- David Zinner (President)
- Marsha Rozenblit (Vice President)
- Madison Meljac-Lehmann (Treasurer)
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
JFPCGW came into existence in 1976 to take Jewish funerals out of ordinary commerce and restore them as a sacred and meaningful mitzvah performed by congregations and other religious communities. 9. Use of the FD's premises 24 hours per day including Sundays, for ritual washing (tahara) and watching (shmira) of the body and a restroom for the people involved. Ritual washing includes cleaning the body and stopping bleeding, dressing the body in a shroud set (tachrichim), placing it into the casket, and closing the casket. FD will provide all necessary supplies for the ritual washing, including muslin shroud sets, Israeli earth, ritual prayer shawl, and clay shards, and protective clothing for the washers. FD will cooperate fully in learning the needs and meeting them. FD will continue to maintain a dedicated tahara room with private entrance with a table suitable for performing tahara.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide hours of Shomrim (ritual guardians) for families and pre-burial support 2,906 Hours
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.