Gordon Jewish Community Center

Analysis

Gordon Jewish Community Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Nashville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1953, 73 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Gordon Jewish Community Center reported income of $5.5m and spending of $5.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $5.0m to $5.5m (+8.7%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Gordon Jewish Community Center sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mamas Kitchen ($5.5m), Training Employment and Community Help Inc ($5.5m) and Partners in Learning Child Development Center Inc ($5.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 24% and program service revenue 57% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $227k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.4m. At year end it held assets of $32.8m against liabilities of $1.1m, net assets of $31.7m. It reported 220 employees.