Center for Jewish Culture (CJC)
Legal name: The Center for Jewish Culture
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994255825
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Phone
- 424-281-9876
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $77,883
- Expenses
- $105,366
- Assets
- $7,517
- Liabilities
- $35,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Gurney (President)
People named in this filing
- Nancy Gurney (President)
- Mark Rosenbach (Treasurer)
- Nancy Lurie (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) is an innovative community where Jewish culture comes alive—through inspirational events and programs that encourage curiosity, a sense of belonging, and connection to Jewish culture and each other. The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 99 - 4255825 . Privacy Policy | The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) is committed to protecting your privacy. We collect personal information, such as your name and email address, solely for the purpose of communicating with you and providing updates on our programs and events. We do not share, sell, or distribute your information to third parties. Your information is stored securely and used only in accordance with this policy. If you have any questions or wish to unsubscribe from our communications, please contact us at [email protected] The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC)...
What it reported doing in 2024
High Holy Days & Shabbat Experience: presentation of four Jewish High Holy Day services, Erev Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashanah Day, Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur, providing opportunities for spiritual reflection, communal engagement, and observance of Jewish traditions. Host unique Shabbat experiences throughout the year offering communal meals, prayer, music, and cultural connection.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.66; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.