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JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS INC

EIN 20-0898587 SUNRISE, FL

Revenue 2025
$8,226,474
Expenses 2025
$7,741,012

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P70
Classification
1200
Street
4200 N UNIVERSITY DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO CARE FOR ABUSED, NEGLECTED AND AT-RISK CHILDREN AS WELL AS THOSE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAMILIES AND THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SERVE ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

  • JAFCO IS LICENSED AS A CHILD PLACING AGENCY TO PROVIDE FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION SERVICES AND AS A CHILD CARING GROUP RESIDENTIAL GROUP CARE AGENCY TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY SHELTER AND GROUP HOME SERVICES TO CHILDREN AGES BIRTH TO 23 (FROM BROWARD, MIAMI DADE, AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES). DURING THE CURRENT YEAR, JAFCO SERVED 953 INDIVIDUALS. JAFCO CURRENTLY PROVIDES AN ENTIRE CONTINUUM OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES: - FAMILY PRESERVATION & STRENGTHENING/CASE MANAGEMENT & REFERRALS - FOSTER/ADOPTIVE PARENT RECRUITMENT, TRAINING & LICENSING/HOME STUDIES - FOSTER CARE PLACEMENT, SUPERVISION AND SUPPORT/ADOPTION PLACEMENT AND POST ADOPTION SUPPORT (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O) SERVICES - EMERGENCY SHELTER (FOR YOUTH AGES BIRTH TO 12)/GROUP HOME PROGRAM (FOR YOUTH AGES 6 TO 23) - SENIOR CAREGIVER PROGRAM (FOR GRANDPARENTS RAISING THEIR GRANDCHILDREN) - MST- MULTI SYSTEMIC THERAPY (IN HOME FAMILY THERAPY PROGRAM), OUTPATIENT THERAPY PROGRAM, AND INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM FOR YOUTH AGING OUT OF FOSTER CARE - WELLNESS AND TRAUMA EDUCATION

    Expenses $6,797,654 · Revenue $20,062

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BARRY SYLVETSKY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARA BERGER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR RONALD SIMON

    PRESIDENT EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • RICHARD ALLEN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • STEWART GREENBERG

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • ABBEY KAPLAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLEN CHELMINSKY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE SIMON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS MEADE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR LISA SIROTA WEINER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • FRAN ZEITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HELENE WEICHOLZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEFFERY SCHACKNOW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JENNIFER DIEMAR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JUSTIN LEO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEITH SINGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARA GOBER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARSHA LEVY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAURICE D PLOUGH JR

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • SHOLOM NEISTEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TAMI ISENBERG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VICKI FREED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAHER MALAK

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $221,221
    From this org
    $198,764
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,457
    Hours/week
    10 + 30 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,764
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,536
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,921
    Filer's total
    $221,221

  • MATTHEW C LEVIN

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (BEG. 07/2025)

    Total calculated
    $115,092
    From this org
    $115,092
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 30 related

  • ROBERT ETZKIN

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (THRU 02/2025 - 06/2025)

    Total calculated
    $239,268
    From this org
    $234,808
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,460
    Hours/week
    10 + 30 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,808
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $4,460
    Filer's total
    $239,268

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $8,226,474
    Expenses
    $7,741,012
    Contributions
    $7,485,246
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,671,007
    Expenses
    $7,419,588
    Contributions
    $5,661,077
    Grants paid
    $818,479
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,352,857
    Expenses
    $7,531,998
    Contributions
    $5,438,478
    Grants paid
    $812,506
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,363,911
    Expenses
    $7,010,741
    Contributions
    $7,188,800
    Grants paid
    $820,940

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,563,037
    Expenses
    $6,507,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,020,499

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,250,750
    Expenses
    $7,116,138
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,582,455

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,379,588
    Expenses
    $6,115,918
    Assets (EOY)
    $926,692

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,452,560
    Expenses
    $5,545,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $731,450

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,323,046
    Expenses
    $5,442,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $850,101

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,165,000
    Expenses
    $5,315,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $759,193

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,587,888
    Expenses
    $5,364,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $822,890

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,131,610
    Expenses
    $5,160,663
    Assets (EOY)
    $558,811

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,872,304
    Expenses
    $4,784,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $510,529

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.