New Orleans JCC
Legal name: New Orleans Jewish Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720408937
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, United States
- Phone
- (504) 897-0143
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,037,311
- Expenses
- $11,579,901
- Assets
- $20,642,173
- Liabilities
- $1,343,371
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JONATHAN FRIEDMAN (PRESIDENT)
- REBECCA H FRIEDMAN (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBYN NOWAK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL RAWL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL RAWL (CEO): $241,994 total reported compensation
- SETH SUTTON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $163,115 total reported compensation
- RACHEL ZOLLER (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $145,323 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 New Orleans JCC is guided by Jewish values and is a place where everyone belongs. Support the New Orleans JCC Your support ensures that the New Orleans JCC remains a vibrant hub of Jewish life, culture, education, and a center for health and wellness. Donate $60 to help us celebrate the 60th anniversary of our beloved St. Charles Avenue building! Your support ensures that the New Orleans JCC remains a vibrant hub of Jewish life, culture, education, and a center for health and wellness. Give Today.
What it reported doing in 2024
Social development $946,066informal education $470,489other $602,610
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 98% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 38 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $548K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, 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: 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.