St. Paul Jewish Federation
Legal name: The United Jewish Fund and Council St Paul Jewish Federation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410693887
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mendota, MN, US
- Phone
- 651-690-1707
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Federated Giving Programs
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,735,965
- Expenses
- $3,382,893
- Assets
- $18,900,809
- Liabilities
- $1,156,566
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARNI TESLOS (PAST PRESIDENT)
- TOM FRISHBERG (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER KAPLAN (PRESIDENT ELECT)
- DAVID KAPLAN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID KAPLAN (CEO): $157,145 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe no Jew should ever feel alone. We exist to ensure the lasting presence of an inclusive and vibrant Jewish community in St. Paul. A simple commitment has guided our work: ensuring that no Jew feels alone while building a stronger, more vibrant Jewish community. To advance that mission, we strengthened the systems and strategies that drive our impact and improved our grantmaking process to better serve community needs. As a result, we can support a broader range of organizations while maintaining accountability and delivering measurable outcomes. We reimagined our camp scholarship program** to help more young people access meaningful Jewish experiences that build identity, connection, and belonging. We also modernized our technology and operations, improving our ability to measure impact, make data-informed decisions, a.
What it reported doing in 2024
Allocations, schliach: the st. Paul jewish federation forms the foundation of the approximately 22,000 members of the greater st. Paul jewish community. Our purpose statement affirms, "we believe no jew should ever feel alone. We ensure the lasting presence of an inclusive, vibrant jewish community in st. Paul." the federation serves as the central community planner, convener, and funder for our jewish community. We offer programs that engage people in jewish life as well as critical funding to more than a dozen local, national and overseas organizations. Through our programs and grants, we support the most vulnerable members of our local jewish community as well as those in 70 other countries. We strengthen jewish life and identity through educational, cultural and social programming, and build strong bonds between the st. Paul jewish community and world jewry, including israel. We safeguard jewish institutions and protect jews against anti-semitism. We work with organizations to ensure the long-term sustainability, vibrancy and safety of our community and the jewish people. In times of crises, we mobilize the jewish community to respond collectively. Expenses infiscal year 2024 include over $1 million from the israel emergency campaign inresponse to the attacks on october 7, 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.5%; rating input score 99; 35th 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.59; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st 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: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $103K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 17 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.