JVS Boston
Legal name: Jewish Vocational Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042104357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Boston, MA, United States
- Phone
- 617-399-3131
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Vocational Counseling
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,915,447
- Expenses
- $29,894,724
- Assets
- $40,814,206
- Liabilities
- $21,382,875
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIRA KKHAZATSKY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JEROME E RUBIN (FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JEROME E RUBIN (FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO): $345,489 total reported compensation
- KIRA KKHAZATSKY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $311,654 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER JEWELL (CFO (UNTIL 6/25)): $241,453 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’s mission is to empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces. For over 80 years, Jewish Vocational Service, JVS, has been a pivotal force in supporting individuals towards financial independence, through training programs and education, helping secure new or better employment opportunities, and enhancing opportunities for financial growth. We partner with local employers and industry leaders to create job training programs that yield jobs in highly competitive fields. We work with community partners and agencies to help provide the best experience possible. JVS has a reputation for continuous innovation, building person-centered and performance-based models to improve outcomes and increase programmatic effectiveness. JVS is committed to helping individ.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pre-employment services provide a menu of workforce development services to individuals. Education programs include english language instruction and specialized college preparation classes and coaching. Skills training programs in multiple sectors equip job seekers with in-demand skills. Pipeline programming works with specific employers to recruit, screen and train cohorts of employees for in-demand jobs. Rapid employment service provides intensive job readiness, placement, and support services to populations including refugees and immigrants, individuals with disabilities and public assistance recipients.
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.
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: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.8%; rating input score 96; 29th 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: -7.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $22.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $345K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.