Abramson Senior Care of JFCS

Legal name: Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life and Subsidiaries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232083077
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Bala Cynwyd, PA, US
Phone
866.JFCS.NOW (866.532.7669)
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nursing, Convalescent Facilities
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$172,961
Expenses
$434,204
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

112 people listed

People named in this filing

  • NEIL J MODEL (CHAIR)
  • LORRAINE DROBNY (IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR)
  • JAMES M MEYER (VICE CHAIR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To strengthen families and individuals across generations and cultures to achieve stability, independence, and community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The abramson center has established a number of programs to serve the needs of senior citizens. Below is a listing of the organization's programs that were operational during the fiscal year july 1, 2025 to september 30, 2025. Chronic care management program: abramson center launched a centers for medicare and medicaid services program in march 2024 in collaboration with suburban geriatrics, a regional primary care provider. The program provided healthcare management of seniors with confirmed diagnosis of 2 or more chronic illnesses. Services include personalized care plans, medication and appointment assistance, care coordination, patient education, and remote access to healthcare.guiding an improved dementia experience (guide)the guide program is a new program at medicare, effective july 1, 2024, to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia and reduce the burden on caregivers by providing dementia care navigation and support services. Guide offers these services at no cost to eligible medicare beneficiaries. Abramson became a participating organization in july 2024 and provides dementia care navigation services, caregiver training and education, respite services, and connections to community resources. Medical mission sisters program: this program is a care management contract arrangement to provide life and health care management services.holocaust survivors program: since 2015, abramson has been partnering with jfcs to support the holocaust survivor program. We offer nurse practitioner support for clinical needs and include routine visits where we help take care of needs such as chronic disease management, blood pressure readings, and other medical essentials.abramson senior care clinic at kleinlife program: since 2022, abramson has been partnering with kleinlife to operate a health and wellness clinic within the community center. Essential health and wellness services include quarterly nurse practitioner support and monthly outreach by health care managers. Health care appointments are available on wednesdays.private pay program: this program offers fee for service care management services.24/7 referral line: abramson responds to inquiries from the community on the 24/7 line providing guidance and expertise.caregiver education programs: virtual caregiver education group offerings are dispensed virtually on a quarterly basis.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 80% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 37
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -151%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 36.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 101 of 101 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $160K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 112 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.