Jewish Community Housing Corporation
Legal name: South Mountain B'nai B'rith Jewish Community Senior Citizen Housing Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222413674
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Livingston, NJ, USA
- Phone
- (973) 929-2725
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,554
- Expenses
- $36
- Assets
- $3,896,039
- Liabilities
- $121,021
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Colton-Max Harold (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- Brooks David (President)
- Barber Paula (Vice President)
- Leeb Seth A (VICE PRESIDENT)
- Cohen Alan (Trustee/Former President)
- Francis Eric S (Trustee/Former President)
Highest reported compensation
- Colton-Max Harold (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $330,682 total reported compensation
- Wilbur Stacey L (COO): $212,667 total reported compensation
- Weiner Richard (CFO): $210,475 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At the Jewish Community Housing Corporation (JCHC), our mission is to provide safe, supportive, and enriching housing for older adults in the heart of our MetroWest community—serving Essex, Morris, Sussex, and northern Union counties. About JCHC senior living communities in New Jersey Whether a resident prefers quiet independence or vibrant community life, we make it possible to age with grace, comfort, and choice. And because peace of mind is essential, families can rest assured knowing their loved ones are cared for by experienced professionals in a secure and welcoming setting. For more than three decades, JCHC has been a trusted leader in senior living. As we continue to grow and evolve, our mission remains constant: to provide high-quality, affordable homes where seniors can live life to the fullest—surrounded by support, purpose, and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
To support own and lease the land on which the south orange b'nai b'rith federation house residential housing project for elderly and disabled persons of low and moderate income housing pursuant to section 8 of u.s. Housing act of 1937, as amended.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 108,223.31; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 191,944.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $331K · 34 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- 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: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.