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JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC

EIN 04-2104363 WORCESTER, MA

Revenue 2024
$2,426,384
Expenses 2024
$2,206,114

Program services were 81.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T700
Classification
1000
Street
646 SALISBURY ST

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 · 2024

Mission

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASS, INC. IS DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND ENRICHMENT OF JEWISH LIFE IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ACT AS THE CENTRAL JEWISH COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION AND ENRICHMENT OF JEWISH LIFE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

  • FEDERATION - THE FEDERATION IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND ENRICHING JEWISH LIFE IN CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. TO FULFILL THIS MISSION, THE FEDERATION RUNS AN ANNUAL CAMPAIGN AND THEN DESIGNATES DOLLARS RAISED TO A VARIETY OF LOCAL COMMUNITY PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL AGENCIES AS WELL AS TO INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS THROUGH OUR AFFILIATION WITH THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA. OVERALL, OUR CAMPAIGN AND PROGRAMS REACH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN OUR LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMUNITIES.

    Expenses $712,095 · Grants $641,486 · Revenue $84,689

  • FOUNDATION - THE FOUNDATION HOLDS ENDOWMENT FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE FEDERATION FROM MORE THAN 75 DONORS. THESE FUNDS FALL INTO FIVE CATEGORIES DONOR ADVISED, PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED, TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED, FUNDS HELD IN TRUST FOR OTHERS AND UNRESTRICTED. MONIES ARE EXPENDED FROM THESE FUNDS ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF THE ENDOWMENT AND THE SPENDING POLICIES ESTABLISHED IN OUR MISSION STATEMENT. IN THE PAST FISCAL YEAR THERE WERE 53 DISBURSEMENTS THAT WERE MADE FROM THE ENDOWMENT TOTALING APPROXIMATELY $366,000.

    Expenses $81,905

  • RACHEL'S TABLE - THE MISSION OF RACHEL'S TABLE IS TO DISTRIBUTE DONATED AND PURCHASED FOOD AND MILK TO SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES HELPING THE HUNGRY IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS AND TO REDUCE THE WASTE OF NOURISHING FOOD. SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1989, RACHEL'S TABLE HAS DISTRIBUTED OVER 14 MILLION POUNDS OF FOOD AND MILK, AT NO COST, TO 30 LOCAL SHELTERS, SOUP KITCHENS, GROUP HOMES, DAY PROGRAMS. AND FOOD PANTRIES. THE CHILDREN'S MILK FUND PROVIDES MILK FOR APPROXIMATELY 20,000 INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AT 21 OF THESE AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. RACHEL'S TABLE ALSO PURCHASES FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FOR THE SUMMER MEAL PROGRAM FOR WORCESTER'S CHILDREN RUN BY FRIENDLY HOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER TO HELP CHILDREN WHEN SCHOOL IS CLOSED AND SCHOOL MEALS UNAVAILABLE.

    Expenses $331,677

  • CLARK HILLEL - CLARK HILLEL, THE STUDENT GROUP THAT CELEBRATES JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, PLURALISM, AND COMMUNITY, IS A PROGRAM OF THE JFCM AND IS RECOGNIZED AS HILLEL PROGRAM CENTER BY HILLEL INTERNATIONAL. WE PRIMARILY SERVE UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS ATTENDING ANY OF THE COLLEGES OF WORCESTER CONSORTIUM SCHOOLS, ALTHOUGH OTHERS ARE WELCOME MOST OF OUR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS ARE UNDERGRADS ATTENDING CLARK UNIVERSITY.

    Expenses $293,694 · Grants $53,781

  • LIFE AND LEGACY IS A PROGRAM OF THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION, AND ENCOURAGES LOCAL JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS TO WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD ENDOWMENTS THAT WILL SUSTAIN THEM IN THE FUTURE. THE GRINSPOON FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTES 33 PERCENT OF THE BUDGET FOR EACH YEAR THAT A COMMUNITY'S LIFE & LEGACY PROGRAM REACHES ITS TARGET GOAL OF LEGACY GIFTS, PROVIDING UP TO $120,000 OVER FOUR YEARS.

  • OTHER PROGRAMS

    Expenses $366,618 · Revenue $53,781

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BEN LYONS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN SHERTZER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KAREN ROTHMAN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN SIGEL

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BECKY PINS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BERNIE ROTMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN MARGOLIS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEBBIE FRUCHTMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENNIS LINDENBERG

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEREMY LURIER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOEL BAKER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSHUA HONIG

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN SADICK

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARCY SHUSTER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK SHEAR

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTIE CASTIEL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NINA STOLL

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TARAH JOSEPH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WENDY BERGMAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVEN SCHIMMEL

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $154,739
    From this org
    $154,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $589
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $154,150
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $589
    Filer's total
    $154,739

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,426,384
    Expenses
    $2,206,114
    Contributions
    $1,808,453
    Grants paid
    $695,267
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,746,775
    Expenses
    $2,322,644
    Contributions
    $2,266,016
    Grants paid
    $674,389
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,859,216
    Expenses
    $1,933,271
    Contributions
    $2,588,669
    Grants paid
    $610,829

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
    $1,809,038
    Expenses
    $2,054,903
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,435,890

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,326,145
    Expenses
    $1,868,268
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,236,777

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,623,626
    Expenses
    $1,348,814
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,222,751

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,898,737
    Expenses
    $1,613,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,208,898

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,098,475
    Expenses
    $1,701,945
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,965,523

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,337,947
    Expenses
    $1,531,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,498,170

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,688,532
    Expenses
    $1,539,695
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,733,237

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,583,744
    Expenses
    $1,648,172
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,292,270

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,435,566
    Expenses
    $1,736,068
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,804,892

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,676,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,141,301

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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 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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.