Vinfen
Overview
Mission
Vinfen transforms lives by building the capacity of individuals, families, organizations, and communities to learn, thrive, and achieve their goals. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. As a human services leader, we strive to be the provider, employer, and partner of choice.
What it reported doing in 2024
- behavioral health services division provides an array of clinical services to adults and children with behavioral health challenges. Services include individual counseling, medication management, emergency services and crisis stabilization. Services are provided in licensed outpatient clinics, homes and other community locations. Behavioral health services help people cope with trauma or crisis, manage symptoms of mental illness and avoid unneeded higher levels of care. - innovation: the innovation division provides digital support services, assistive technology to individuals with disabilities or behavioral health challenges. The division also implements research projects with academic partners to study service improvement interventions. - integrated care: the integrated care division provides care coordination and support to address health related social needs for people with behavioral health challenges or disabilities. The division helps connect people to health care providers, complete housing applications and arrange for home-based services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042632219
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Website reviewed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, MA, United States
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the website gives limited detail about important organizational relationships.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Public financial transparency: 2 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 40
- Impact reporting controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: 2 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.78; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $248.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $598K · 16 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 11 filed related-organization links