Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City
Legal name: Jewish Vocational Service Bureau of Kansas City
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 440545994
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, United States
- Phone
- 816.471.2808
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,589,969
- Expenses
- $8,684,432
- Assets
- $7,840,901
- Liabilities
- $682,582
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRAD FINKLE (PRESIDENT)
- ALLYSON HILE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRADY POSKIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANDREA BARAN (VICE PRESIDENT (TERM END 11/21/24))
- HILARY COHEN-SINGER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- HILARY COHEN-SINGER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $167,040 total reported compensation
- REBECKAH MOLINA (CFAO): $115,099 total reported compensation
- LAUREN WEINHOLD (CEAO): $108,477 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
JVS engages, encourages and empowers people to achieve social, cultural and economic integration. Thriving Communities, Strengthened by Diversity Our Values JVS believes all people have intrinsic worth and dignity, and all people can flourish with support. Our Values JVS believes all people have intrinsic worth and dignity, and all people can flourish with support. Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City. JVS believes all people have intrinsic worth and dignity, and all people can flourish with support. Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City 4600 Paseo Blvd.
What it reported doing in 2024
Missouri new arrivals assistance: works with new arrivals who have been in the united states for 5 years or less to provide employment services and address barriers to new arrivals obtaining employment, such as social adjustment services, interpretation and translation services, day care, and citizenship and naturalization services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.3%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: Limited
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: 25.1%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62.3% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $7.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $167K · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 43 of 43 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.