INNOCENT VOICES INC Innocent Voices

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271240785
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
San Leandro, CA, USA
Phone
5104151777
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health, General and Financing

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,261
Expenses
$81,395
Assets
$47,225
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tess Johnson (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Tess Johnson (Executive Director)
  • John Chou (Chairman)
  • Virginia Frohmberg (Founder and Member-at-Large)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Founded in 2003, Innocent Voices, Inc. seeks out and fully examines organizations both locally and globally that are working to improve the lives of children in crisis. These organizations address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of children. Innocent Voices works with approximately ten partnering organizations and chooses projects with several of these organizations each year.

What it reported doing in 2025

Innocent Voices financially supports, raises awareness of and intercedes for children in crisis. Approximately 400 children benefit through rehabilitative support from human trafficking and other emotional and physical needs from situations of neglect, impoverishment, and other situations of crises and vulnerabilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -117.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.