Silicon Valley Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205061316
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4087909400
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Improvement, Capacity Building N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,200,309
- Expenses
- $7,041,000
- Assets
- $4,463,192
- Liabilities
- $344,007
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA ANDREW (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA ANDREW (CEO): $319,769 total reported compensation
- LISA ANNA DOMINGUEZ (CDO): $222,331 total reported compensation
- CHRIS CARNEY (COO): $160,487 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties. Our goal is to be the leading advocate for public education in the region. We are known for our clear focus on achieving results, partnering, and emphasizing creativity and innovation. Beyond serving students, teachers, and administrators, we provide value to the larger community by making investing in education easy.why we matter - there has never been a more critical time to improve our schools. We must ensure our future workforce is prepared to take on the technological and business challenges that lie ahead. With an increasing gap of qualified workers to take over silicon valley jobs, our future as the heart of the u.s. Innovation is at risk.what we do - we establish effective partnerships with the private sector, the education community, and othe
What it reported doing in 2025
East side alliance the east side alliance (esa) consists of eight districts: east side union high school district and the seven elementary partner districts. With partnerships with san jose state university and evergreen community college, svef provides a pre-k through 16 aligned system. Through the esa, svef offers: academic preparation, through our championing of a-g default curriculum and the spartan east side promise. Our assessment for learning program offers professional development for teachers and administrators. The program highlights performance assessments in which students carry out tasks that require them to show evidence of their learning. Financial support, through our partnership with excite credit union to provide savings accounts to college-going seniors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 7 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $320K · 35 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.