Ventura County Believe Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990835189
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Oxnard, CA, USA
Phone
8052220422
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$133,827
Expenses
$122,560
Assets
$11,627
Liabilities
$5,286

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Annabel Taylor (President)

People named in this filing

  • Annabel Taylor (President)
  • Barry Taylor (Director)
  • LaTresha Speights (Secretary)

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

Our organization is committed to bringing hope and healing to those in need and experiencing hardship. Offering pathways to healing through diverse programs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program expenses are to help those in need. This includes expenses for meals, gift cards, funeral expense, rental assistance and personal supplies

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 21.3%; rating input score 21
  • Program expense ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 23

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 83.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 101.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 185.1% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 21.3% of revenue deployed · 23.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $28K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.