Bay Area Jewish Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994007844
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,200
- Expenses
- $82,219
- Assets
- $170,271
- Liabilities
- $38,575
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NEAL RUBIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NEAL RUBIN (PRESIDENT)
- JAN REICHER (SECRETARY)
- MICHAEL JACOBS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bay Area Jewish Action (BAJA) promotes Jewish safety, values, and inclusion by educating and building relationships with political leaders and by financially supporting candidates. With antisemitism on the rise in our city halls, school boards, and political organizations, JCRC Bay Area identified an urgent need to mobilize Jewish political advocacy in local and state politics. In 2024, JCRC Bay Area joined with community leaders to launch Bay Area Jewish Action (BAJA), JCRC’s new affiliated 501(c)(4) political advocacy organization. BAJA works alongside JCRC to advance a just society where Jewish identity is embraced and all people can thrive. In our pilot year, BAJA helped facilitate contributions to 10 candidates for local and state office from more than 200 Jewish community members. Over the coming years, BAJA will bring political expertise, trainings, and resource.
What it reported doing in 2025
Education and Coalition Building Hosted a Shabbat dinner at the California Democratic Party Convention to engage community leaders and policymakers; attended local candidate and political events; and held private educational meetings with candidates to discuss shared policy priorities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.7%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 95.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 73.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 42.7% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.