Maryland · Nonprofit
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC (Maryland) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,277,271 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($5,882,512). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc does
Mission
The jewish council for the aging's (jca) mission is to provide programs and services to support older adults and their families and to build bridges across generations. Jca serves people of all faiths, races, ethnicities, and income levels. Jca is unique in the range of programs and essential services it offers older adults in the greater washington, d.c. Region. People turn to jca as a trustworthy advocate and guide on the issues that matter to older adults and their families. Jca's work is critical to helping people age with dignity, independence, and vitality. During fiscal year 2025 (july 1, 2024 to june 30, 2025), jca experienced a 14% increase in the number of people they served, helping 10,484 people in the greater washington, d.c. Area on their aging journey.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation and mobility management:jca's provides transportation solutions through the connect-a-ride resource center, the village rides volunteer driver program, and with a fleet of handicap-accessible buses, giving older adults access to reliable, affordable transportation and helping them maintain their health, vitality, and independence.in fy 2025, jca's mobility management programs helped 2,272 people find transportation. Through jca's village rides program, 513 seniors received 3,622 one-way rides from 220 volunteer drivers across our 16 partner organizations, and the escorted transportation program provided 775 rides for 145 people.
$1,803,364 spent$749,362 earned by the program41% of program spendingSenior employment services:jca's career gateway, 50+ employment expos, and senior community service employment program (scsep) provide coaching, training, and networking opportunities for the 50+ jobseeker, helping them to find and keep jobs.jca's virtual 50+ employment expos give job seekers opportunities to network with area employers. In fy 2025, 4,208 people attended 10 virtual 50+ employment expos. More than 718 people attended career gateway sessions in fy 2025. Career gateway helps jobseekers aged 50 and older improve their job search skills through an interactive multi-day intensive workshop.the scsep provides on-the-job training and a minimum wage for low-income adults age 55+ who live in montgomery and frederick counties. Scsep provided 64 people with training, working 35,712 hours at local nonprofit organizations in fy 2025.
$1,165,903 spent$9,835 earned by the program26% of program spendingInformation, education & outreach:jca offers resources to families seeking information and support around aging through its senior helpline and state health insurance assistance program (ship), which provides montgomery county seniors and adults under 65 with long-term disabilities with health insurance counseling, enrollment guidance, and assistance and problem resolution for issues relating to medicare benefits and other public and private health insurance sources.calls to jca's senior helpline staff and volunteers responded to inquiries from people seeking transportation, housing, support, and resources for themselves or an aging family member. Certified counselors from jca's ship program assisted 1,709 medicare beneficiaries.
$507,667 spent$1,780 earned by the program11% of program spendingAdult day programs:jca's samuel j. Gorlitz kensington clubs are social-model adult day programs serving older adults living with early-stage memory loss and their care partners. Kensington clubs give people diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (mci) or early-stage alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ad/adrd), meaningful cognitive and physical activity in safe and comfortable surroundings while offering support and respite for caregivers. Kensington clubs started kesher caf, the first free young onset dementia (yod) social engagement group in montgomery county, in december 2023, to address the needs of the increasing number of people diagnosed with yod.in fy 2025, the number of people with early-stage memory loss and their care partners served by jca's samuel j. Gorlitz kensington clubs grew by 10% from fy 2024. Jca's three samuel j. Gorlitz kensington clubs in rockville, white oak, and germantown served 119 people with anearly-stage memory loss diagnosis and their care partners.intergenerational programs:jca's austin heyman interages center build bridges across generations and has been recognized nationally by generations united as a program of distinction for its…
$944,808 spent$201,933 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,421,742.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $7.9M to $9.2M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 38% · 2018 36% · 2019 38% · 2020 50% · 2021 55% · 2022 52% · 2023 46% · 2024 60% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shane Rock
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $889k → $1.4M.
6 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 84% · 2019 66% · 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 52% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
61% of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $572k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $242k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$242k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC?
- JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC (Maryland) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,277,271 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($5,882,512). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $10,277,271 in grants to JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,882,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing