Silicon Valley Allied for the Common Good

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871238573
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
San Jose, CA, USA
Phone
6504920273
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$272,986
Expenses
$210,580
Assets
$507,720
Liabilities
$2,908

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Charlie Rothschild (President)

People named in this filing

  • Charlie Rothschild (President)
  • Joanna Shreve (Treas & Sec)
  • Ivonn Rivera (Director)

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

We are a non-partisan network of civic associations, faith-based organizations and nonprofits that come together to effect change on a larger scale than we could alone. We identify shared issues affecting our communities (such as housing insecurity, mental health issues and closing the technology divide). We build long-term relationships across lines that often divide us. We help regular people have a seat at the decision-making tables of Silicon Valley.We are a "sponsoring committee" because we are in the early stages of building an organization, and are affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), the nations largest and longest-standing leadership development and organizing network. The IAF believes that a healthy democracy requires the active participation of ordinary people.

What it reported doing in 2025

2025 was our first full year after our official founding as Silicon Valley Allied for the Common Good. We hired our first full time lead organizer, and grew to 21 diverse contributing institutions representing over 30,000 people. Each institution invests annual dues, and individuals within each institution contribute financially to support the work. Our first year of operations was focused on listening to the concerns of the members of those 21 Institutions, through a broad series of one-on-one relational dialogues, and House Meetings. All together we engaged in dialogue with 750 people. We also focused on training individuals on leadership and building power, and to date, have trained almost 200 people.As a result, we identified three key areas of concern to all of the people we represent and have begun researching these issues to identify actions we will take in 2026. The three areas are Healthcare SafetyNet for all residents of Santa Clara County, Immigration protection, and Neighborhood safety as some of our low-income neighborhoods are fraught with crime.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $60.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 22.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.41; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 43.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.