Tucson Jewish Community Center

Legal name: Tucson Jewish Community Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860183578
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Tucson, AZ, United States
Phone
5202993000
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Neighborhood Centers
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,242,566
Expenses
$16,612,352
Assets
$19,645,449
Liabilities
$3,469,700

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TODD ROCKOFF (PRESIDENT/CE)

Highest reported compensation

  • TODD ROCKOFF (PRESIDENT/CE): $278,380 total reported compensation
  • JOSH SHENKER (COO): $151,077 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL GADARIAN (CFO): $135,119 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the Tucson Jewish Community Center is to cultivate and enrich Jewish identity, ensure Jewish continuity, foster wellness, and broaden communal harmony. JCC Movement Vision and Statement of Principles The vision of the JCC Movement is to create a vibrant and welcoming Jewish environment that encourages people to lead engaged lives of meaning and purpose. We believe the JCC is a primary destination for Jewish engagement, a locus of learning and celebration and a connector to Jewish life: a place where individuals and families can encounter Jewish ideas, principles, practices, and values; where they encounter Israel and explore the ideal of Jewish peoplehood in their lives; and a public square for convening important conversations both within the Jewish and among the broader community. JCC programs, services, and connections will support a div.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth and disability program services: tucson j provides full-day and after-school care for over 150 children throughout the year. Through disability program services, we support more than 115 children and young adults annually. Program highlight - 2025 jcc maccabi games and access in july and august 2025, the tucson jewish community center successfully hosted the 2025 jcc maccabi games and access from july 27 through august 1, marking the first time in 25 years that tucson served as a host city for this international jewish youth sporting event. Often referred to as the "jewish olympics," the games brought together over 850 jewish teen athletes from five countries to participate in athletic competition, community service, and jewish peoplehood building experiences. The 2025 games included the inaugural full scale implementation of jcc maccabi access in tucson, providing an inclusive and adaptive athletic experience for teens and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The event also welcomed the largest israeli delegation in the history of the jcc maccabi games, with more than 100 athletes and coaches participating. Opening ceremonies were held at the tucson arena and featured a parade of athletes representing 40 delegations, along with messages of hope and resilience reflecting global jewish solidarity. The week concluded with a yellow ribbon closing ceremony honoring hostages held in gaza and celebrating unity across the worldwide jewish community. Events took place across multiple venues throughout metropolitan tucson and included competition in basketball, swimming, soccer, volleyball, baseball, tennis, golf, dance, and other sports. Beyond athletics, participants engaged in cultural exchange, community service projects, and youth led media initiatives, including the star reporter program. The 2025 jcc maccabi games and access generated significant community engagement and was estimated to produce between 4 million and 5 million in economic impact for the greater tucson region, while advancing the tucson j's mission of jewish identity, inclusion, and community building.

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.
  • 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: -2.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $278K · 28 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.7M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.