California · Nonprofit
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,193 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($248,593). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $351k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Northern California Board of Rabbis does
Mission
The board of rabbis serves the needs of colleagues, acts as a religious resource in communal and individual affairs, and builds connections and committment to the jewish community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rabbis, strengthened by community support and working together, can be a bridge to all segments within our society, fostering better understanding and compassion for all peoples. The program service accomplishments include the following: (1) articulating moral and religious concerns and to provide a strong rabbinic voice in matters affecting jewish and general communities; (2) strengthening ties between rabbis, the synagogues, and the federation, and to work cooperatively to advance common goals; (3) to strengthen and expand the community chaplaincy program throughout the federation area. To endorse and coordinate personnel and programs in northern california state mental institutions and prisons and san francisco prisions; (4) to participate in interfaith clergy activities invloving religious and social justice concerns; (5) to sponsor and/or inspire meaningful community events designed to heighten jewish consciousness and participation in jewish life; (6) to establish programs for members of the board of rabbis that will heighten awareness of important issues and contribute toward religious and intellectual enhancement and; (7) to serve as a resource for rabbis who encounter…
$129,159 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $129,159.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $92k to $48k (−48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rabbi Jill Zimmerman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $57k → $65k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 40% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
74% of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $93k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS?
- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,193 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ($248,593). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $351,193 in grants to NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA is the largest funder on record, with $248,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOARD OF RABBIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing