The Virtue Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562289262
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2123552227
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Government and Public Administration

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$895,142
Expenses
$523,394
Assets
$5,605,866
Liabilities
$3,779

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOAN LAROVERE MD (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SHAHPARI NAZERI DDS (TREASURER/SE)
  • JOSEPH SALIM DMD (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • JOAN LAROVERE MD (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Virtue foundation's mission is to increase awareness, inspire action, and render assistance through initiatives on healthcare, education, and women and justice programs, as well as innovative work in research and analytics.

What it reported doing in 2024

Datamapping for good the virtue foundation actionable data mapping initiative (formerly named the "data mapping initiative") is a forward- thinking technology platform that employs machine learning and ai to better match needs and resources in 72 low and low-middle income countries. This first of its kind platform provides medical professionals and other global health actors with the information they need to best deploy their time, talent and resources. Born of years of on the ground global medical and surgical missions in underserved regions of the world, the platform leverages predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze geospatial data, infrastructure, risk factors, environmental conditions as well as other factors to arrive at insights critical to improving the delivery of healthcare to those most in need. Designed to create a more efficient marketplace for the delivery of healthcare in underserved regions of the world, the platform, through a simple, free user-friendly interface, seeks to provide individuals, non- profits, governments, and companies with more efficient access to data needed to help make critical decisions on the how to most efficiently allocate resources for greatest impact. At virtue foundation, research and analytics are a large part of all its program areas, and an important goal in every project that is undertaken. Analytics is enabled by knowledge and data. Thus, another guiding principle of its work is the collection and sharing of interdisciplinary data to better inform its programming. To this end, virtue foundation continues to develop several interactive map projects that will lay out needs and available resources to help inform where assistance as well as specific intervention is needed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 88
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • 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: 41.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.71; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $410K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • 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: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.