Klezcalifornia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550824193
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- El Cerrito, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157897679
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cultural, Ethnic Awareness
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,481
- Expenses
- $73,088
- Assets
- $154,941
- Liabilities
- $5,840
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gerry Tenney (President)
- Judith Kunofsky (Treasurer and Acting Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Dmitri Gaskin (Chairperson)
- Talia Shaham (Vice-Chair)
- Gerry Tenney (President)
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
Education
What it reported doing in 2024
Supports "KLEZCADIA, A Safer Shtetl for Klezmer Music & Yiddish Culture," a fully-hybrid festival and learning retreat that prioritizes the safe experience of immunocompromised and medically high-risk participants held in Victoria, Canada. U.S. Friends of KLEZCADIA pays the U.S. expenses of the event and a $20,000 grant to Congregation Emanuel, which hosts the Festival. The inaugural season was June 4-9, 2024 in Victoria, Canada, and served over 300 in-person participants, as well as 487 virtual attendees in 14 countries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 54% for direct work, and 46% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.1%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
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: 38.8%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 46% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.1% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.