San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770123939
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- (408)384-8382
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $384,428
- Expenses
- $676,923
- Assets
- $3,017,976
- Liabilities
- $790,732
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kris Jensen (Museum Director): $145,015 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles preserves, celebrates, and promotes knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their history, and their inspiration.
What it reported doing in 2024
Exhibitions Total Museum attendance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 was approximately 9,000 people, including paid and unpaid attendance, Free First Fridays, Community Days, tours, and special events. The Museum mounted multiple exhibitions in 2024-2025 to share and celebrate textiles and quilts and strengthen our ties with our community including - Printed and Stitched, 25 Million Stitches, Sustainability, JustQUILTS!, and Kay Sekimachi-Ingenuity and Imagination.. The Museum continues to present an off-site exhibition at Pacific International Quilt Festival, a quilt festival at the Santa Clara Convention Center that draws over 6,000 national and international quiltmakers. The Museum also has partnerships with local quilting guilds, the local neighborhood association, Next Door Solutions, and Veggielution. In addition, the Museum has begun offering classes in textile arts to the community. Lastly, the Museum holds a permanent collection of historic and contemporary quilts and fiber art.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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 - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 61.3%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -76.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.46; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 61.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $415K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 12/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.