MJHS Health System
Legal name: Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 113538697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 1-855-370-8317
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,442,809
- Expenses
- $62,642,809
- Assets
- $36,910,430
- Liabilities
- $30,607,173
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 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 (Chief Legal Officer): $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
Rooted in Jewish values and traditions and consistent with the highest standards of quality care, MJHS Health System seeks to be the premier provider of health services in the greater New York area, ensuring access to health, supportive and community-based services across the continuum of need. As a not-for-profit health system that goes above and beyond for the patients and residents who entrust us with their care, MJHS relies on philanthropic support raised by the MJHS Foundation to carry out our mission and to help offset costs not reimbursed by government programs or private insurance. Learn more about the charitable efforts of the MJHS Foundation. Three seniors walk down a sidewalk on a city block. They are smiling and conversing with each other.
What it reported doing in 2024
Established in 1907 by the four brooklyn ladies, and rooted in the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, today mjhs is one of the most innovative health systems in the region serving, caring for, supporting and guiding people of all economic, religious and cultural backgrounds as well as gender identity, sexual orientation and military status. Mjhs health system is committed to ensuring that all new yorkers have access to health, supportive and community-based services including: home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, two centers for rehabilitation and nursing care, an institute for innovation in palliative care, housing as well as health plans for medicare, dual medicare and medicaid, and long-term care recipients at every level of health. In 2024, the mjhs family of programs and services cared for approximately 76,000 new yorkers across the 5 boroughs of nyc, nassau, suffolk, westchester, rockland, putnam, duchess, orange, ontario, orleans, seneca, sullivan, ulster, yates, livingston and monroe counties.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.6%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 5
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 45th 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: -0.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 4.6% of revenue deployed · 4.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 24 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.3M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.