The Greater Trenton Jewish Cemetery Project
Legal name: The Greater Trenton Jewish Cemetery Proj
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831490842
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, US
- Phone
- 6098957348
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,144
- Expenses
- $33,417
- Assets
- $181,871
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALBERT STARK (PRESIDENT)
- MORT COHEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LYNNE AZARCHI (TRUSTEE)
- GARY HOFING (TRUSTEE)
- JEFFREY PERLMAN (TRUSTEE)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Restore dignity and honor to the forebears of our region’s great Jewish heritage; restore and maintain sacred Jewish cemetery spaces through restoration, preservation, and education. Cataloging and photographing the gravesites, including all readily available information about the decedents, is a difficult task. With the support of donors like you, we hope to include some Pitman Cluster graves that are not yet catalogued, along with documentation of the 500+ additional gravesites now under our management at the People of Truth Memorial Section cemetery on Cedar Lane. The Greater Trenton Jewish Cemetery Project, GTJCP See for yourself. Visit the cemeteries.
What it reported doing in 2025
Genizah project - hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics are collected through a community-wide collection program at synagogues and jewish community social service agencies. Worn, used or irreparable religious objects that have been collected are properly disposed of through a burial in a jewish cemetery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.5%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.44; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 38% of revenue deployed · 63.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.