Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service
Legal name: The Melvin J & Claire Levine Jewish Residential & Family Service of Palm Be Ach County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650737159
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Palm Beach, FL, United States
- Phone
- (561) 684-1991
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing, Shelter N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,091,539
- Expenses
- $3,527,975
- Assets
- $5,272,725
- Liabilities
- $1,213,126
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALAN I GOLDBERG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GARY HOFFMAN (PRESIDENT (THRU 04/2025), IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT (EFF. 04/2025))
- JENNIFER LESSER (PRESIDENT (EFF. 04/2025))
- MARC HOPIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- MARC HOPIN (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $232,491 total reported compensation
- DR JERYL KERSHNER (CHILD PSYCHIATRIST): $228,713 total reported compensation
- KELLEY WHITER (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $183,099 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Repairing the World, One Family at a Time. We believe** that supporting our team is just as important as supporting our mission. We’re committed to creating a workplace where employees feel valued, empowered, and cared for—both professionally and personally. We offer a range of benefits designed to promote well-being, encourage growth, and support a healthy work-life balance. Benefits & Perks Health Insurance. Post this to Facebook Tweet this Share this on Linkedin Pin this on Pinterest +1 this on Google+ Share this via email Posted in General At Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family Service, our volunteers are the heartbeat of our mission. Every day, they show up with compassion, dedication, and a shared belief in creating a stronger, kinder community for all. From delivering groceries to homebound seniors and mentoring youth, to supporting Holocaust Survivors, staffing our food...
What it reported doing in 2024
The apartment program provides a three tier system for supported independent living for residents who are able to live in the community with varying amounts of support/supervision. The apartment program offers residents the opportunity to live alone while utilizing the assistance of 24 hour on-site support staff, and participate in social, recreational and life-skills instruction on a daily basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- 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: Limited
- 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: 13.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.