Viable Options in Community Endeavors VOICE
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752491685
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Corsicana, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9038720180
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,810,461
- Expenses
- $2,937,362
- Assets
- $1,826,883
- Liabilities
- $1,199,432
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Goodnight (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- John Goodnight (CEO): $140,360 total reported compensation
- Laura MacGregor (Dir of Fin & HR): $94,043 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 empower children and families to lead healthy and productive lives by promoting success in education, nurturing wellness in mind and body, and developing skills for tomorrow's global leaders.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth Prevention - VOICE implemented four youth substance abuse prevention curricula in FY25, presenting information about the dangers of substance use and misuse and promoting behavioral health awareness for 21,702 youth and 3,459 adults. While each curriculum serves a different group, they all define success as a change in behaviors and attitudes toward the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and utilize pre- and post-tests to measure these changes. Additionally, VOICE conducted or participated in 1,718 positive activities and community events with 56,290 youth and 15,509 adults. The Curriculum-Based Support Groups curriculum serves youth in Kindergarten through 12th grade who are experiencing some educational and behavioral obstacles in school. Combined, we served 2,292 children and youth in FY25, with a success rate of 98%. The Positive Action curriculum is new to VOICE. It helps children develop self-management skills and encourages responsible decision-making, and it emphasizes actions that promote a healthy and positive lifestyle. VOICE served 2,173 students in FY25 with a success rate of 91%.The agency's family-focused Strengthening Families Program curriculum serves parents, children, and youth of high-risk and general populations. We served 76 parents and 96 children and youth with an 89% completion rate in FY25. Life Skills Training targets children and youth in 3rd grade through high school, regardless of their level of risk for substance use and misuse. We served 3,731 children and youth in FY25 with an overall success rate of 90%.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 93% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $292.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.