Silicon Valley Security Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932812947
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Danville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6692359433
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $354,489
- Expenses
- $248,810
- Assets
- $281,581
- Liabilities
- $2,833
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICARDO SEGOVIA (PRESIDENT/EX)
Highest reported compensation
- RICARDO SEGOVIA (PRESIDENT/EX): $54,210 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The silicon valley security group (svsg) operates as a pioneering 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the public good by connecting global security professionals within a diverse, ego-free environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
The silicon valley security group (svsg) operates as a pioneering 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the public good by connecting global security professionals within a diverse, ego-free environment. Our primary program focuses on fostering security innovation and professional development through a robust network that facilitates knowledge sharing and cross-sector collaboration between the public and private sectors. By providing equitable access to educational resources, specialized training in emerging technologies, and mentorship opportunities, svsg empowers its members to advance their technical skills and leadership capabilities. We are committed to building a genuine community that prioritizes psychological safety and inclusion, ensuring that a wide array of perspectivesfrom practitioners and students to public safety officialscontributes to the collective growth of the world's security knowledge and the advancement of innovative security solutions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.4%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 58
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.4%; rating input score 86; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 29.8%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 79% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.4% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.