Venture Strategies for Health and Development Dba Oasis

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300037857
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Berkeley, CA, USA
Phone
5104552909
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Planning Centers

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,084,745
Expenses
$2,820,669
Assets
$1,261,248
Liabilities
$19,901

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • NATALIE WILLIAMS (CO EXEC. DIRECT): $136,000 total reported compensation
  • SARAH JANE HOLCOMBE (Secretary): $106,112 total reported compensation
  • ALISHA GRAVES (CO EXEC. DIRECT): $54,080 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 facilitate beneficial change in health, family planning and aspects of development in developing countries. The primary purposes of venture strategies for health and development (vshd) are to improve health and development in low resource countries by reducing barriers that inhibit women from having access to options about childbearing; supporting the availability of promising health technologies that have potential for large-scale impact around the world; and increasing understanding of the imperative of slowing population growth with a voluntary human rights framework.

What it reported doing in 2024

Vshd, with partner, centre for girls education, continued support for five models of safe spaces programming for more than 4,500 girls in northern nigeria. Vshd, with partner lumiere des filles et des femmes, continued support of safe spaces for 996 in-school girls (aimed to delay early marriage by keeping girls in school) and 307 married adolescent girls (aimed to educate girls on life skills and access to family planning services) in maradi, niger. Vshd successfully completed landscape assessments on the availability of reproductive health medicines using vshds availability framework in four countries and disseminated results at national and internation stakeholder meetings. Vshd launched a program in tchad to register a quality-assured misoprostol product and integrate it into the public health care system in order to assist the government in reducing maternal mortality due to postpartum hemorrhage (currently the leading cause of maternal death). The tchad ministry of health signed a formal implementation plan to initiate the program in three regions. Vshd supported grade africa in the implementation plan of two programs: population & development education in three niger universities, (enrolling 104 students in four district courses and offering 27 scholarships), and a group prenatal care project in maradi, niger (reaching 840 pregnant mothers).vshd created the elles du sahel, a diverse group of 16 female activists from the sahel, the european union and united states to advocate at the regional and global level for increased attention to and funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights, girls education, and gender based violence. Vshd, with partner jeunes voluntaire pour lenvironnement, worked to integrate family planning into climate adaptation plans in niger. Final draft plans are under review with the niger government.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 41% for direct work, and 59% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 75
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Pass
    • Conducts field audits: Limited
    • May suspend future funding: Limited
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Limited
    • Requires grant agreements: Pass
    • May require repayment: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.6%; rating input score 98; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $136K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.