New Vision Aviation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364893866
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Fresno, CA, USA
Phone
5597976304
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Specialized Education Institutions

Reported finances

Revenue
$318,622
Expenses
$406,281
Assets
$141,071
Liabilities
$30,027

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSEPH OLDHAM (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOSEPH OLDHAM (President): $25,643 total reported compensation
  • Dionnetrae Smith (CFO): $2,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

New Vision Aviation, Inc. NVA is a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing residents and youth from disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley with the opportunity to experience flight and begin training for careers in aviation. Founded in March 2018, New Vision Aviation? s tag line is ? Elevating People Through Aviation?.

What it reported doing in 2025

New Vision Aviation goals for 2026 are consistent with our continuing work to engage and connect youth from disadvantaged communities of color in Fresno County with career opportunities in the Aviation industry. 2025 was a good year for us, but has also presented numerous challenges that have had to be overcome. Our aircraft maintenance costs were very high in 2025, but much of that was due to having to the unexpected overhaul of the engine in our Cessna 172 and the high usage of our Cessna 150 to fill in the gap in available aircraft for training. We used one of the Pipistrel Alpha Electros for training three of our students and will continue to use these aircraft to supplement training in our piston engine aircraft in 2026. One student, completed his Commercial and Certified Flight Instructor certification in August 2025 to become the youngest certified flight instructor in the world; completing certification just two weeks after turning 18 years old! New Vision Aviation currently has fifteen (15) high school age low-income students actively training; four of which are female. These students have shown consistent attendance at our Saturday morning ground school sessions and have now started getting paired up with instructors for flight training. All of them have applied for their student pilot certificates. Our plan for 2026 is to get at least four of these students to complete Private Pilot or Sport Pilot certification. Our plan for the remainder of the students is that will pass their FAA written test as a first step toward certification. Once they pass the written test, they have two years to complete their training. Our plan for 2026 is to mainly use funding from WoodNext Foundation to cover flight training expenses for four of our low-income students that are old enough to complete their certification by the end of 2026 and the overhaul of the engine in our Cessna 150. We have also budgeted for at least two field trips for our Saturday high school age students in 2026. We are rebidding with Fresno Unified School District to continue to be a vendor to provide aviation summer camps for their students in 2026 and beyond. Finally, our overall goal for 2026 is have sufficient students that can afford to pay for flight training to support the monthly operational costs so that the generous funding from the WoodNext Foundation can be used just to support our low-income students in their journey to careers in the Aviation industry. We are close to that goal and are working hard to make it a reality.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -27.5%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $366K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $26K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 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
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.