Valley Jewish Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710874686
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Granada Hills, CA, United States
- Phone
- 818-360-2211
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $749,456
- Expenses
- $1,174,733
- Assets
- $180,442
- Liabilities
- $221,983
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Oliver Haas (President)
- Elaine Fox (Administrative Vice President)
- Stephen Levine (Vice President)
- Bill Bender (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Oliver Haas (President)
- Elaine Fox (Administrative Vice President)
- Stephen Levine (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Facilitate and provide community activities and education for all ages. Memories to Last a Lifetime Volunteer with us Valley JCC Growth Initiative Valley Jewish Community Center (VJCC) is an essential community hub, enriching lives through diverse programs. Our 2025 Growth Initiative goal is $180,000. Learn More Here. Volunteer Mailing Address: Valley Jewish Community Center** 18017 Chatsworth St. # 217, Granada Hills, CA 91344 818-360-2211 • [email protected].
What it reported doing in 2024
Nursery School/Day Care Programs - Provide an educational program for children from ages 18 months - 5 years. Children are provided with the tools to develop a life-long passion for learning. By doing this, we nurture our children into becoming strong, compassionate, and moral citizens. 44 students participated in the program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -56.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.23; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.