Soref JCC
Legal name: Samuel M and Helene Soref Jewish Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591766701
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Plantation, FL, United States
- Phone
- (954) 792-6700
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,031,003
- Expenses
- $5,634,771
- Assets
- $8,379,869
- Liabilities
- $3,395,177
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD GRAW (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DONALD GRAW (CEO): $359,775 total reported compensation
- ROCHELLE ZENCHYK (CFO): $151,250 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 Soref JCC is a non-profit organization that contributes to the welfare of the entire community by providing a center for cultural, educational, recreational, and social services, while continuing to preserve Jewish tradition and values. We need your help so we can continue helping others.** Your support allows us to provide **free bags of groceries** and provide vital **scholarship assistance** to those who need it most. Together, we can ensure that no one in our community is left behind, regardless of their background. 1. Mission + Impact The Soref JCC is committed to supporting Broward County residents in need — children, seniors, and working families who rely on us for food, stability, and opportunity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Children's elementary - provide quality afterschool care for more than 500 elementary aged children from surrounding communities during the hours they are not in school. Soref jcc provided scholarships to children who otherwise would not have had childcare. Ourchildcare program eliminates latch-key children and allows parents to work or seek employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd 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: Pass
- 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: 6.6%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $360K · 16 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.