UC Berkeley Hillel
Legal name: Berkeley Hillel
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521758790
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108457793
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,604,710
- Expenses
- $2,587,634
- Assets
- $33,584,506
- Liabilities
- $908,756
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADAM NAFTALIN-KELMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- OREN GABRIEL (PRESIDENT)
- DANIELLE NATELSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- EMILY HIRSCHMAN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $125,313 total reported compensation
- ADAM NAFTALIN-KELMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $118,467 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enriching the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world; Berkeley Hillel will advocate for its mission to the greater campus community and will model in its actions: excellence, innovation, accountability and fun. From orientation to graduation, and through each semester, students make Berkeley Hillel their second home while sparking lifelong learning and friendships. We help each other thrive through dozens of clubs and fellowships, Shabbat and holiday services, a weekly BBQ, immersive travel, and so much more. And threaded throughout everything we do, our Jewish values tie us closer together. You are always welcome here. Welcome to Berkeley Hillel. Our Mission:** Enriching the lives of Jewish students so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world, Berkeley Hillel will advocate for its mission to the greater campus community and will...
What it reported doing in 2024
Holidays - berkeley hillel puts on jewish religious and cultural holiday celebrations for berkeley students, following the jewish calendar. In 2025, 171 students participated in the jewish high holidays, and 117 students for passover.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -61.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.98; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.