Plaza Jewish Community Chapel
Legal name: Plaza Jewish Community Chapel Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134148998
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212-769-4400
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,077,982
- Expenses
- $4,397,061
- Assets
- $3,716,373
- Liabilities
- $897,125
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
63 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHANIE GARRY (EVP COMMUNAL PARTNERSHIPS): $300,364 total reported compensation
- DARREN PICHT (EVP FUNERAL DIVISION): $290,003 total reported compensation
- GREGORY KATZ-ZANNITTO (SR. DIRECTOR COMMUNAL PARTNERSHIPS): $284,507 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Plaza has provided education and bereavement support around end of life conversation. Plaza has provided dignified first class funerals without the profit motive. Taking the profit motive out of funerals has allowed Plaza to concentrate on the families instead of trying to sell upgraded services, and to set up education and bereavement counseling and support.
What it reported doing in 2024
The chapel is a not-for-profit corporation governed by an unpaid board of directors that includes clergy from all of the major denominations, representatives of jewish social service agencies, individuals who serve as lay leaders in synagogues and jewish communal organizations. Our mission is to ensure that every member of the jewish community receives a dignified and respectful jewish funeral; to lower the high cost of funerals by eliminating the profit motive and commercialism so often associated with the funeral industry; and to provide appropriate connections to jewish communal resources that the bereaved may need to cope with emotional or practical problems. In addition, the chapel offers full end to end personalized design and sale of monuments. The work includes stone selection, including size (continued on schedule o) (continued from form 990, part iii, #4a) and type of stone, securing permits and authorizations, production, graveside placement and unveiling.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 72.8%; rating input score 73; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -7.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 81.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 58 of 58 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $300K · 63 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $313K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.