Sheriff's Advisory Board of Santa Clara County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770063973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4084450300
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Crime Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,576
- Expenses
- $162,396
- Assets
- $762,819
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY KREMEN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BILL HERNDON (CFO)
- JOHN KIRKORIAN (SECRETARY)
- GARY KREMEN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support the santa clara county sheriff's deputies by funding equipment purchases and other expenditures that can not otherwise be funded through the county budget.
What it reported doing in 2025
The sheriff's advisory board of santa clara county (sccsab) has only one client and one program: - the client is the office of the sheriff of santa clara county - the program consists of funding purchases that the sheriff has been unable to fund out of normal county budget allocations. Our level of program expenditure each year is determined by the number and size of requests we receive from the sheriff. The primary intent is to provide equipment or facilities that will enhance the training and safety of officers in the field. Sccsab helps the sheriff's special emergency response team (sert) search and rescue team, dive team, crime investigation, bomb squad and the k-9 unit, as well as other specialized units. The board also supplements the funding required for the sheriff's firing range facility. The contributions made over the years helped provide a safer working environment for the sheriff officers in the field. The sheriff's advisory board contributed polaris utv vehicle, sponsor of regional swat competition, snapsafe lock boxes to sheriff deputies, helicopter monitor with software. In addition, the board provided red rock rover sling bags to correctional academy graduates and a custody k-9 unit. They also furnished the sheriff deputies with elcan phantom ir thermal binoculars and other program services. The above mentioned contributions enhanced and improved the general safety and well being of sheriff's office personnel and the public of santa clara county.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.7; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $149K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.