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COUNCIL GARDENS

EIN 34-0909917 CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH

Revenue 2024
$2,088,477
Expenses 2024
$2,083,610

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 RD

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 · 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.

  • DAVID GROSS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • GAIL SANDS

    CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SUE MAIER

    CO-CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ETHAN WELCH

    CO-CHAIR ELECT

    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
  • 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
  • GERALD APPEL

    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
  • MIRIAM PALES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • RITA POLITZER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SUE BIAGIANTI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • STEPHEN WERTHEIM

    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
  • BARBARA MERVINE

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $155,486
    From this org
    $145,486
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,333
    Bonus
    $565
    Other
    $9,588
    Deferred
    $10,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $155,486

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 — 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
    $2,088,477
    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.

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 10 September 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.