University of Arizona Hillel
Legal name: Hillel Foundation at the University of Arizona
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 866053800
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, United States
- Phone
- 520.624.6561
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $743,886
- Expenses
- $964,868
- Assets
- $1,805,730
- Liabilities
- $60,316
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ELIE DVORIN (EXECUTIVE DI): $61,707 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are here to help you build a vibrant, diverse, meaningful, and empowered Jewish community at UArizona. Wherever you are on your Jewish journey, we welcome you. Teah joined the University of Arizona Hillel team in 2025 after relocating to Tucson with her husband and children. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Teah spent the previous 12 years in rural Nevada, where she developed a deep passion for mission-driven work. She brings valuable experience in nonprofit management, policy development, grant writing, and creating impactful programs. Teah is excited to contribute to Hillel’s mission and to be part of initiatives that align with her values and promote community growth. In her free time, Teah enjoys stargazing, rock hunting, swimming, fishing, traveling, and learning about history and world events. She and her husband also love playing socce.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 through the end of fiscal year 2025, our hillel foundation served about 729 students at the university of Arizona. Although we serve anyone, we primarily serve jewish students on campus. We provide them with comprehensive opportunities to engage with peers and jewish life including through meals, holiday celebrations, affinity-group programming, cultural bonding, processing sessions, workshops, pastoral care, leadership training, and more. All of our work is student led and staff curated, giving students the opportunity to grow and hone significant leadership skills and senses of personal agency. Through our programming, we empower students to build a deep, meaningful, and diverse jewish community at the university of Arizona, as well as build strong connections with students at other cultural and religious centers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -29.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 61.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $592K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.