Brody Jewish Center - Hillel at UVA
Legal name: The Hillel Jewish Center at the University of Virginia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 546061871
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Phone
- (434) 295-4963
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $788,859
- Expenses
- $1,048,356
- Assets
- $3,984,234
- Liabilities
- $9,086
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SAMANTHA FEIN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANNIE WEINBERG (EXECUTIVE DI): $116,782 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enrich the lives of Jewish students at the University of Virginia so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. > “You get to build a community for a specific group of people and give them something they’ve been missing or looking for at UVA. I’ve learned a lot about how to weave Jewish values into my everyday interests and involvements, like social justice, through my connections with the staff at the BJC” > - Noa Kipnis, CLAS '23 > “I met all of my friends here at the BJC. Moving in early and having a group of people to get close with has been really amazing. It’s been a fantastic support group as we all settle into college. There’s always someone to say hi to, always someone to study with. The BJC is a great place to go to for whatever I’m looking for in the moment. There are tons of great programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Through a broad range of activities and services hillel empowered jewish students at uva to take ownership of their jewish identity and create a welcoming, motivating, and pluralistic community on grounds. Hillel engaged over 600 students at least once, 280 students in regular programming, and worked with over 150 students through high impact experiences. Hillel offered shabbat services and meals, holiday celebrations, jewish learning opportunities, leadership development courses. Trips to israel and argentina, volunteer opportunities, and staff-student mentorship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.8; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 71.4% of revenue deployed · 53.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $563K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.