Jewish Silicon Valley

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 942222989
IRS 990 coverage: 2011–2024
Official website data refreshed: Jun 2026
Forms available: Form 990 2024
Location: Los Gatos, CA, USA
Phone: 408.357.7429
Rating: 79
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Neighborhood Centers
Affiliation: Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $14,208,155
Expenses: $13,539,303
Assets: $22,519,188
Liabilities: $4,803,137

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

DANIEL KLEIN (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

DANIEL KLEIN (CEO): $303,037 total reported compensation
DIANA SCHNABEL (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $189,719 total reported compensation
AMY CHIEN (SENIOR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $166,329 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Jewish Silicon Valley is a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting, supporting, and advocating for the Jewish community across Silicon Valley. Rabbi Hugh previously served as Jewish Community Liaison for VITAS Healthcare and prior to that, spent ten years teaching Jewish Studies at Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, where he served most recently as Director of Israel and Jewish Studies Curricula. After studying at Deep Springs College, he earned a B.A. with Highest Honors in English Literature from UC Berkeley and received his rabbinical training from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He has completed both the Rabbinic Leadership Training Program and the Tikkun Middot Training Program of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality and is a fellow of the Mandel Executive Leadership Program. He teaches and lectures on topics.

What it reported doing in 2024

Youth and family engagementapjcc preschooljsv operates a preschool of children 18 months to 5 years old, which includes extended afternoon care, enrichment programs, and summer camp. Approximately 110 children attend the preschool. The preschool is licensed by the state of California and meets licensing requirements.hebrew and jewish educationjsv's beged kefet is a hebrew language afterschool program for students in kindergarten through high school. Beged kefet's purpose is to teach the fundamentals and improve hebrew language skills in reading, writing, speaking and comprehension. The program also incorporates learning about jewish holidays and israeli culture and integrates family activities into the curriculum. Our pj library offering sends out free books and cd's each month to create treasured jewish moments from the simple act of reading stories together.youth and campsduring the year ended june 30, 2025, jsv served more than 1,000 children, from 18 months old to 8th grade in its various summer day camps and school break camps. These programs are based in jewish themes and values, and welcome children of every cultural background. Additionally, jsv offers opportunities for teens to participate as counselors in its camp programs, and to participate on jsv's swim and maccabi games teams.additionally, the youth and camps department manages jsv's teen programming work which includes collaborations with existing teen and tween organizations to offer classes and programs, as well as coordinates jsv owned teen and tween events and initiatives.

Operating model

Revenue model: Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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.

Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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: 75
Transparency & Controls: 79
Accountability: 88
Sustainability: 50
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
Program expense ratio: 82%; rating input score 82
Fundraising efficiency: $7.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
Foreign activity oversight: Limited
Grant itemization coverage: 90.7%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

Independent voting board: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

Operating margin: 4.7%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

What they do: 1 operating location identified
Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 82% of spending went to programs
Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11.1M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $303K · 27 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $854K reported
Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 43 filed money-flow records
Related organizations: 34 filed related-organization links
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.
Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.