Marilyn and Marvin Simon Family Jewish Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540616479
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2015
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7573212338
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,354,017
- Expenses
- $3,112,758
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTY EINHORN (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID LEON (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- TERRI SARFAN (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- HARRY GRABER (EXECUTIVE VP): $290,850 total reported compensation
- SCOTT KATZ (CENTER DIRECTOR THROUGH 1.2016): $156,811 total reported compensation
- ANDREW WEINBERG (CFO): $101,101 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate and promote jewish culture and maintain jewish welfare in the community.
What it reported doing in 2015
Preschool; beginnings; kids connection- financial assistance for preschool tuition; beginnings program develops parent and baby relationships and parental skills; kids connection provides before and after school activities and homework assistance for grades k-5; pj library provides monthly book with jewish content to age 0-5 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 6
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th 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: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 88.3%; rating input score 88; 24th 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; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 29 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $291K · 32 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2009 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.