Victoria's Voice Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843606664
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Ocoee, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7027325111
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,562,285
- Expenses
- $2,121,653
- Assets
- $4,111,200
- Liabilities
- $152,621
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID SIEGEL (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
- CRISA MARDER (VICE PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
- ROMINA LU (CEO)
- LEAH SHEPHERD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROMINA LU (CEO): $234,000 total reported compensation
- LEAH SHEPHERD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $156,930 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the victoria's voice foundation is to advance initiatives against the drug epidemic, seek policy changes, and develop programs and projects - or support those created by other credible organizations - that prevent substance use disorder, address the intersection between mental health and drug abuse, and save lives from overdose.
What it reported doing in 2024
Save our kids offers live and video-based drug prevention programs that inspire students from elementary through high school to live drug-free lives. Partnering with steered straight, the live speaker programled by michael deleonhas reached over one million students, parents, and educators with powerful real-life stories and prevention resources. Video programs like the secret hero and taste it equip youth with essential life skills, self-worth, and decision-making tools to overcome adversity and make positive choices.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 46
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.1%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 41
- Fundraising efficiency: $80.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.1% of revenue deployed · 41.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $873K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $234K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.