VARP Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953532367
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9093813774
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Treatment Only
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,415,578
- Expenses
- $13,970,765
- Assets
- $12,142,918
- Liabilities
- $1,518,626
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shelly Mattazaro (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Shelly Mattazaro (Executive Director): $170,909 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Residential substance abuse recovery treatment program for men, women, veterans & non-veterans.
What it reported doing in 2024
Structured residential 24-hour per day treatment providing a substance-free environment with trained personnel who assist the abuser with their recovery. We offer a three stage continuum of care approach, Primary Care (Assessment, treatment planning, education, group therapy, relapse prevention and exit planning), Sober Living (job search, living sober skills, etc.,) and our Outpatient Treatment Program, helping maintain a balanced sober living lifestyle for our clients. We currently operate thirteen State Licensed Alcohol and Drug facilities, 24-hours a day, 7-days a week with a combined capacity of 130 beds. Our success rate is approximately 85%. We have helped over 65,000 men and women since 1979.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $81.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $144K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.