MJHS Foundation

Legal name: Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
111630753
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
New York, NY, United States
Phone
7184917208
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,931,677
Expenses
$4,497,990
Assets
$131,380,232
Liabilities
$938,908

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID WAGNER (CEO, PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVID WAGNER (CEO, PRESIDENT): $1,655,965 total reported compensation
  • DAVID KOSCHITZKI (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $863,294 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTINA VAN VORT (ASSISTANT SECRETARY): $828,857 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 MJHS Foundation supports the mission of MJHS Health System by raising funds needed to ensure the continuation of high-quality, compassionate health care for at-risk members of the community—bringing MJHS programs and services to life and supporting access to care across the continuum of need. As the needs and makeup of the community evolved, MJHS grew from caring for a few dozen people in a single tenement building to serving thousands of New Yorkers of every background and financial status. Throughout this growth, our mission to provide the highest‑quality care with compassion, dignity and respect has never wavered—and continues to be strengthened by donors who believe in this vision. Resilient and determined, the Brooklyn Ladies began their journey by going door to door, asking neighbors for charitable support to bring their mission to life. With no donation too small, it was...

What it reported doing in 2024

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the organization continues to deliver on its philanthropic roots which date back to 1907 when the four brooklyn ladies established the charitable not-for-profit to care for the frail elderly in the community. Mjhs foundation is committed to raising the funds necessary to offset the costs of health and health-related programs and services offered by the organizations within the mjhs health system family that are not covered or fully reimbursed by government programs or private insurance. Today, the organizations within the mjhs health system family provide hospice and palliative care for adults and children, two skilled centers for rehabilitation and nursing care, home care as well as additional programs for people of all economic, religious and cultural backgrounds as well as gender identity, sexual orientation and military status. Mjhs foundation also provides seed money to organizations within the mjhs health system family for research and innovation designed to improve patient care and health outcomes while managing costs. Funding comes from grateful families, grants, corporate and private donors as well as leadership and staff.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 58
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 84
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 62.9%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • 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: 54.7%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 29.21; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 62.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 18 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.