Via Vetera

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 352638061
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2021–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location: San Mateo, CA, USA
Phone: 6502552289
Rating: 89
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Single Organization Support
Affiliation: Religious (unspecified)

Reported finances

Revenue: $51,590
Expenses: $54,151
Assets: $10,324

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

NINETTE HEREFORD (PRESIDENT/DI)

People named in this filing

NINETTE HEREFORD (PRESIDENT/DI)
RENATE STOIBER (DIRECTOR)
DANILO BRIDGENS (DIRECTOR)

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

Deepening an awareness and relationship with god and others through various classes, workshops and retreats, via vetera works with individuals to help them deepen their relationship with god. Via vetera also works with ministry groups, such as worship teams and elders - tailors the classes or retreats to best meet the needs of those groups.

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

STRONG - 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: 96
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 21
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -11.6% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -42.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.