Vietnamese Voluntary Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942764504
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Milpitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4085073192
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $479,623
- Expenses
- $461,675
- Assets
- $1,452,683
- Liabilities
- $567
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BAO TRIEU (CHAIRMAN, CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BAO TRIEU (CHAIRMAN, CEO): $54,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
VIVO's missions are to empower refugees, immigrants, and low income ethnic families among the underserved communities, to become productive participating citizens, to benefit themselves, their families and their communities through providing comprehensive Community Cultural, Educational, Health Promotional and Social Services, among others, that promote a healthy, violence-free, self-sufficient and multi-cultural understanding society. In turn, community members are encouraged to give and contribute their talents through educational leadership, community social services, and cultural activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
VIVO provide free services to the local community of city and count low income families, refugees and immigrants, etc. with outreach activities for their benefits. Services are categorized in 3 main components: Case Management, Civic Participation and Education. Typical Case Management services are to help clients in document translation, application for government services such as Citizenship, DMV, EDD Unemployment, Housing, Health. Civic Participation services are to inform and encourage clients to take part in civic duties and functions such as census, voting, etc. Education Services are to provide classes for Citizenship Preparation, ESL, Computer, Smartphone, etc. to enhance clients' communication ability with language skills and technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.15; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 91.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $421K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.