Jewish Leadership Academy
Legal name: Jewish Leadership Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 862513535
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, United States
- Phone
- 3053062660
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,914,970
- Expenses
- $19,808,007
- Assets
- $107,231,141
- Liabilities
- $18,438,048
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL ADES (PRESIDENT)
- GIL PERL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- GIL PERL (CEO): $376,412 total reported compensation
- JOE SHARP (CFO/COO): $234,748 total reported compensation
- LORI KUBACH (ASSOCIATE HEAD OF MIDDLE SCHOOL): $211,139 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 Leadership Academy is a world-class Jewish Middle and Upper School dedicated to developing the skills, curiosity, and potential of Miami2027s most ambitious students for a life of purpose, commitment, and service. Anna Shields-Bartfeld** is the co-founder and Director of Consensio, a conflict management and mediation consultancy, established in 2007. She supports organizations to manage workplace conflict and build resilient workplaces, through mediation, leadership development, training, coaching and online tools. She grew up in the UK and holds a degree in International History and Politics from Leeds University, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma from Birkbeck. Anna started her professional life in executive search at Heidrick and Struggles and was a founding partner at a leading firm in the City of London. In addition to her expertise in conflict resolution, she is an...
What it reported doing in 2024
The jewish leadership academy is a world-class jewish middle and upper school dedicated to developing the skills, curiosity, and potential of miami's most ambitious students for a life of purpose, commitment, and service.
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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,890.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
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: -24.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.41; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 87.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -31.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $376K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.