Valor Healing Farms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844314658
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Ojai, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8057073702
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,669
- Expenses
- $34,978
- Assets
- $57,705
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE SARDONIA (CEO)
People named in this filing
- JULIE SARDONIA (CEO)
- SARAH HEDGE (Secretary)
- TRACY TRUDEAU (CFO)
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
Valor Healing Farms has been created to serve the military community including veterans, active duty, caregivers, families and first responders.Through farming internships, therapeutic horticulture, sustainable gardening, animal-assisted therapy and Nature, VHF programs are designed to benefit participants in meaningful and lasting ways. Our mission is to promote mind/body well-being, mental and emotional balance, self-care skills, life skills, career opportunities, stress reduction, recovery from PTSD, and suicide prevention. We use several local farms in Ojai/Ventura County. Our long-term goal is to find a piece of land in the same area to be our permanent home. This space will be dedicated to providing participants with first-hand learning experiences that will show them: 1) how healing and growth can be found through connections to nature, gardening, animals, and healthy, nurturing experiences with other people; and, 2) how they can bring those therapeutic activities into their own
What it reported doing in 2025
GARDENS AND AGRICULTUREHome: Develop and build home gardens in order to educate, reintegrate and cultivate healthy family relationships and communication within the participants own residence with home grown sustainable food, herbs, flowers and or a meditative space for reflection. All materials and education included.Military Valor Community Gardens: Our goal is to provide access to learning about gardening, healthy food options, sense of purpose and camaraderie working together as a community. We are grateful to CEF/Taft Garden in Ojai for the beautiful private gardening and restorative space. We offer Wellness Workshops and Retreats focusing on medicinal plants, gardening and healthy coping strategies through mindfulness, yoga and nature walks. Also, we are looking forward to developing a small Archery course. Stay tuned for more information.We now have fulfilled our vision of another garden site: we are offering the military families at Catalina Heights in Camarillo the opportunity to garden together as families to explore the wonders of home grown food, camaraderie, laughter, and learning in order to provide healthy food options as well as wellness and therapeutic experiences.Coming NEW - In July of 2026, we now have permission to build a community garden on the Point Mugu Base in Ventura County.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.