Village of Love and Resistance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834350357
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3014047429
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Urban, Community Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $353,834
- Expenses
- $90,148
- Assets
- $1,761,540
- Liabilities
- $358,213
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marisela Gomez (President)
People named in this filing
- Marisela Gomez (President)
- Pamela Jordan (Treasurer)
- Katherine Williams (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to co-create a cooperative community in East Baltimore owned by residents impacted by racist systems of uneven development. We seek to build this cooperative community through the reclamation of land healing reconnecting and building a base of community power.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025 VOLAR continued its community organizing leadership development neighborhood stewardship and affordable housing and community development work in East Baltimore. Activities included producing two community newsletters; hiring a community organizer to support leadership development; providing financial literacy and social history training; sharing regular updates on VOLARs work in the community; conducting seasonal neighborhood cleanups; and monitoring neighborhood conditions including regular 311 reporting related to graffiti traffic accidents and other concerns. VOLAR also continued redevelopment of its intentional cooperative housing project to create seven units of affordable housing advanced elevator design to provide ADA access for the cooperative housing and future Community Hub and continued design and pre-development work for the Community Hub. VOLAR also met with city council and state representatives to discuss support for its community development work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 32
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.4%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 74.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 19.54; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.4% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $112K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.