Sephardic Adventure Camp
Legal name: The Foundation for Sephardic Camp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263877195
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062572225
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $439,534
- Expenses
- $443,183
- Assets
- $13,927
- Liabilities
- $4,272
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Jacoby (Vice President)
- Isaac Varon (President)
- Danny Jassen (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kenneth Pollack (Director): $46,250 total reported compensation
- Jodi Fried (Recruiter/Marketing Director): $41,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A joyful Jewish overnight summer camp experience that combines Sephardic tradition and Jewish practice with outdoor adventure and classic camp activities for campers and future teen leaders. Support SAC Ask SAC © 2026 Sephardic Adventure Camp.A 501(c)(3) nonprofit.All rights reserved. SAC now draws campers and staff from Seattle and Jewish communities across the United States, Canada, Israel, Spain, and beyond. What still guides camp The activities have grown, but the heart of the program is the same: Sephardic heritage, Jewish values, outdoor adventure, and a staff that helps campers feel known. The activities have grown, but the heart of the program is the same: Sephardic heritage, Jewish values, outdoor adventure, and a staff that helps campers feel known. Sephardic tradition Culture sessions, Sephardic baking, Torah learning, daily prayer, and Shabbat help campers experience...
What it reported doing in 2025
Programing was excellent combination of learning and Jewish values by exposing them to Sephardic prayer, music and culture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th 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: 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: -0.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 65.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $290K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.