Vietnam Veterans of San Diego Dba Veterans Village of San Diego
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953649525
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6194970142
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,567,527
- Expenses
- $23,822,102
- Assets
- $46,610,947
- Liabilities
- $37,591,898
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AKILAH TEMPLETON (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AKILAH TEMPLETON (President & CEO): $212,232 total reported compensation
- SHARI FINNEY (VP HR & BEH HEALTH): $159,467 total reported compensation
- KENA LIGGINS-TOMPKINS (CFO): $147,271 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vietnam veterans of san diego is dedicated to extending assistance to needy and homeless veterans of all wars and eras and their families by providing housing, food, clothing, substance abuse recovery, mental health counseling, job training and job placement services.we believe in the inherent worth of each and every veteran and his or her right to a rehabilitation program which leads to renewed self-worth and independent living. Vietnam veterans of san diego, as an organization, shall accomplish this through appropriate related goals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Vietnam Veterans of San Diego dba Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD) is a non-profit corporation founded in 1981. VVSD supports 3,100 of Americas veterans each year, helping them to overcome homelessness and related challenges. As the only licensed residential drug treatment program for homeless veterans in San Diego County, VVSD provides a Comprehensive Continuum of Care (Prevention, Intervention, Treatment & Aftercare) to veterans and their families. Our mission extends assistance to Veterans and their families beyond the basic food, clothing, and shelter.Emergency and transitional housing are coupled with personalized case management services for substance use recovery, mental health counseling, job training/job search assistance, legal services, and much more. This integrated approach addresses their fundamental needs, but also provides an opportunity to introduce alternative healing activities, which are found to be equally beneficial in the recovery process.VVSD is the founder of both Stand Down and Homeless Court, which began in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Both programs address a broad spectrum of services, and help to remove barriers for securing housing, employment, and social services. Stand Down is the point of entry for many of these brave men and women. Today, more than 300 Stand Downs have been replicated across our nation, and many major cities have established their own Homeless Court.VVSD operates the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic, which provides confidential, high-quality mental health services at low-to-no-cost to post-9/11 veterans (including National Guard and Reserves), their families, and the families of active duty service members, including spouse or partner, children, parents, siblings, caregivers, and others. VVSD Escondido, LLC is a single member LLC owned by VVSD. VVSD Escondido, LLC operates a permanent supportive housing project in Escondido, California consisting of 54 units known as Veterans Villas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $47.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $212K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $360K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 10/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.