Father Kens Vineyard Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472213498
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- La Canada, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4254239655
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $380,723
- Expenses
- $448,845
- Assets
- $234,622
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Bavasi (President)
- James Orlandini (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Robert Bavasi (President)
- Elizabeth Casey Feld (Member)
- James Orlandini (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Father Kens Vineyard provides physical and spiritual care to various communities in urgent need; continuing with needs of homeless, those escaping domestic violence, parolees and prisoners in Southern California; working with Native American missions in New Mexico and Coachella Valley; encouraging education and self-sufficiency of villagers in Meru County in central Kenya.
What it reported doing in 2025
Father Ken is committed to sustainable solutions and development of local resources.Father Kens Vineyard supporters are committed to helping Father Ken Deasy spread not only his compassionate message of Gods love, but also such essential items as food, water purification systems, shoes, clothing, textbooks, school and medical supplies. In Kenya, the Vineyard supplies funds to build a church, school, kitchen and multi-purpose room, 10 bed medical clinic primarily serving women and children, water drilling and purification systems, latrines, agriculture training, animal husbandry especially a cow milking operation which helps feed locals with excess supply sold for other goods.In Uganda, the Vineyard helped with funding the Community Skills BuildingIn India, the Vineyard began an outreach program during the year. And in response to the devasting fire in Lahaina, Hawaii on August 8, 2023, the Vineyard was able to assist numerous residents that were displaced, left homeless or unemployed due to the fires. And assisting in connecting these people with other agencies for emergency relief services and support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: -17.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $428K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.