Greater Chicago Jewish Festival
Legal name: The Jewish Pocet
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363035049
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Skokie, IL, US
- Phone
- 847-933-3000
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,359
- Expenses
- $6,109
- Assets
- $138,732
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Michael Lorge (Director)
- Lisa Drucker (Director)
- Mark Gershon (Director)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Greater Chicago Jewish Festival brings together the best of the community’s professional and amateur singers, dancers, and artists; demonstrates to Jewish children and the larger community that the Jewish community does not just gather in times of crisis; educates the Jewish community about its multifaceted culture; reaches out to the general community to show the breadth and depth of the Jewish community; provides an avenue for Jewish artists and performers to develop and present their work while encouraging them to work on Jewish themes within their fields; and encourages tolerance by bringing the entire Jewish community together to celebrate our culture, identity, and diversity.
What it reported doing in 2022
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.71; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2022
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.