Chico Hillel
Legal name: Hillel of Chico
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450565454
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Chico, CA, United States
- Phone
- (530) 879-0870
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,634
- Expenses
- $87,671
- Assets
- $134,789
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID HALIMI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID HALIMI (PRESIDENT)
- KRISTY COLLINS (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DAVID ZEICHICK (FACULTY ADVI)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Chico Hillel’s mission is to cultivate students’ personal and professional growth, wellness, and Jewish identity through authentic social and cultural experiences, providing a safe and welcoming space as a home away from home for Jewish students. We invite our students to be in the driver’s seat. We empower each individual to discover what being Jewish means to them. We cultivate a Jewish family experience with all students on campus. We are a tight knit group who loves and supports one another plus friends, roommates and any other curious visitors. Our Jewish Social Club on campus contributes to the development of lifelong friendships through education, engagement, food and cultural activities. | | --- | --- | | | Our organization has over a 30 year history as a social club that encourages the cultural welfare of Jewish students and residents of Butte County, California, with its...
What it reported doing in 2024
Sabbath dinner, israel birthright programs, campus culture programs and social gatherings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
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: 7.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.