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COUNCIL GARDENS

EIN 34-0909917 CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH

Revenue 2025
$2,219,488
Expenses 2025
$2,085,964

Program services were 75.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L21Z
Classification
1000
Street
2501 NORTH TAYLOR ROAD

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).

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.

  • BARBARA MERVINE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $161,325
    From this org
    $151,325
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,167
    Bonus
    $570
    Other
    $9,588
    Deferred
    $10,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $161,325

  • ETHAN WELCH

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUE MAIER

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUE BIAGIANTI

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER TEETER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SHELDON GREEN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GRETTA RYAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEPHEN WERTHEIM

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AARON EVENCHIK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BARBARA EPSTEIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ELAINE GELLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JANELLE LEONARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JANICE HIRSHON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURA HALPERT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LILIA LIPPS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LOIS COHEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RITA POLITZER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIC EGLIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARCY SCHWARTZ

    NCJW PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • AARON BULLOFF

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BECKY CHESLER

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DEBBIE HOFFMANN

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID GROSS

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GAIL SANDS

    EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GERALD APPEL

    DIRECTOR (UNTIL 5/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,219,488
    Expenses
    $2,085,964
    Contributions
    $19,051
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,088,477
    Expenses
    $2,083,610
    Contributions
    $29,201
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,995,130
    Expenses
    $1,999,262
    Contributions
    $23,841
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,877,151
    Expenses
    $1,941,888
    Contributions
    $29,692
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,829,900
    Expenses
    $1,898,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,195,673

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,865,446
    Expenses
    $1,968,387
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,323,072

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,830,494
    Expenses
    $1,909,826
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,317,168

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,771,878
    Expenses
    $1,837,395
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,558,476

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,777,992
    Expenses
    $1,918,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,726,043

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,667,699
    Expenses
    $1,877,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,913,153

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,688,114
    Expenses
    $1,814,419
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,213,302

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,674,118
    Expenses
    $1,937,916
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,474,176

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,688,708
    Expenses
    $1,918,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,877,146

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,801,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,085,693

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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.