Minneapolis Jewish Federation
Legal name: The Jewish Community Building Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411933056
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Phone
- 952-593-2600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Real Estate Associations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,191,202
- Expenses
- $347,126
- Assets
- $15,324,662
- Liabilities
- $4,268,954
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES A COHEN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES A COHEN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $491,339 total reported compensation
- MARTIN LIPSHUTZ (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $181,516 total reported compensation
- SHAI AVNY (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $178,092 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Minneapolis Jewish Federation (MJF) promotes a culture of philanthropy by leveraging resources and professional expertise to meet local and global Jewish needs, supporting Jewish organizations through grants, scholarships, and emergency response. Because of the strength and support of our community we can leverage resources, leaders, and organizations to help the agencies we work with and the programs we support — the places that make up a thriving Jewish community — innovate, upgrade, and often simply exist. Our Mission Minneapolis Jewish Federation promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages financial and professional resources to meet local and global Jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future at home, in Israel, and around the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
The jewish community building corporation is organized for the purpose of holding real estate assets for minneapolis jewish federation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 62% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 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: 70.9%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 44.15; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $491K · 8 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $980K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 8 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.