Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Instit Ute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852286045
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Saratoga, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6692097730
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,081
- Expenses
- $119,694
- Assets
- $444
- Liabilities
- $11,502
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- YOUNGHEE PARK (C.E.O)
- HANA LEE (C.F.O)
- SARA TEHRANIPOOR (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Silicon valley cybersecurity institute (svcsi), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, aims to investigate, develop, and promote technical excellence and the best security practices for dependable and secure systems and applications. With industry partners, we leverage our local communities, including high schools, colleges, and universities, in designing various cybersecurity activities for future cybersecurity workforce development. In particular, our center focuses on underrepresented groups, called unisec, to increase their interest in cybersecurity as a career. Based on the nsf definition, the underrepresented groups in cybersecurity (unisec) include and are not limited to women, persons with disabilities, and minority groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
To share research outcomes in the community and to provide students the professional cybersecurity opportunity for their career. Also, it is cybersecurity professional networking with academics and industry.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 25.91; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -34.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.