Yad Ahava Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992088639
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8582452630
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Judaism
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,156,593
- Expenses
- $1,341,767
- Assets
- $10,065
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ITAI LIPTZ (PRESIDENT (THRU 4/25))
- CLIFFORD BORO (PRESIDENT (AS OF 4/25))
People named in this filing
- ITAI LIPTZ (PRESIDENT (THRU 4/25))
- CLIFFORD BORO (PRESIDENT (AS OF 4/25))
- RAYMONT WATT (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We help jews by providing engaging conferences and informative sessions to enhance knowledge about judaism and empower individuals to confidently stand up for their identity as jews in the united states.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, yad foundation conducted more than two dozen virtual briefing sessions via zoom designed to educate and inform participants about jewish history, identity, and contemporary issues. These sessions shared original research, provided educational resources, and fostered dialogue to empower participants to confidently express and defend their jewish identity. In addition, the foundation held at least a dozen individual donor briefings to share vital research findings and to engage supporters in the foundation's educational mission. Through these activities, yad foundation significantly advanced its charitable and educational purposes by broadening public understanding of judaism and combating misinformation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -86.3% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -80.8% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -180.4% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.