Tru Vista Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943142399
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023
Location
Reno, NV, USA
Phone
7753375760
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$321,576
Expenses
$306,967
Assets
$36,136
Liabilities
$38,236

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bert Wells (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jacki Hallerbach (Executive Dir.): $50,327 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide advocacy and otherwise unavailable services to families in need, particularly those individuals in specialty courts.

What it reported doing in 2024

Tru Vista provides leadership, organization, funding and mentorship services to facilitate communication, collaboration and cooperation among the various organizations, agencies and businesses that work with children and families involved in the Washoe County Family Court system. Tru Vista primarily provides services to Family Treatment Court and Safe Babies Court. During the current fiscal year, Tru Vista helped reunite numerous families through Family Treatment Court and Safe Babies Court. Tru Vista provided case management, peer mentorship and direct services to parents in these specialty court programs. They provided assistance to the judge, attorneys, social workers, and court staff to optimize the support to families. They provided Christmas and Back to School assistance to countless children in guardianship, foster or kinship care or recently reunited with their parents.Tru Vista's programs include: Family Needs Program: allows immediate access to food, diapers, clothing for children, furniture, dental, glasses, utility bills, job training, school supplies and down payments for rent for families involved with Family Treatment Court or Safe Babies Court.Orientation program provides a comprehensive introduction to court procedures for Family Treatment Court clients. This includes assistance with understanding all court requirements, legal responsibilities, procedures and signing of required releases.Mentor Mom/Parent Partner Program: this program assists Family Treatment Court and Safe Babies Court clients with peer mentors to assist parents navigating the court system, learning life skills, monitoring daily activities, providing guidance and modeling safe and sober living.Foster Grandparent Program Mentors: Provides on-going support to families with children. Support includes attending court with their clients, providing information and referrals, helping obtain drivers licenses or social security cards, purchasing diapers and baby items, tutoring, organization birthday and holiday events, family outings and assisting with family treatment.Court Guardianship Program: provides case management and directs services and purchases for minor children involved in guardianship.Judges Scholarship for Children: provides scholarship for dues, fees, supplies and lunches for children whose parents are clients of Family Treatment Court or Safe Babies Court or who are in legal Minor Guardianship Care. These funds also pay for participation in sports, recreation, academic and other activities that help children with self-esteem, self-efficacy, coordination, social skills and building positive morals and values.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.7%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.06; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.7% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $253K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.