Village Rise
Legal name: Village Rise Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851324770
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2022588617
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,300
- Expenses
- $78,396
- Assets
- $43,385
- Liabilities
- $192
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Manijeh Marvastian (President/Director)
People named in this filing
- Manijeh Marvastian (President/Director)
- Morteza Porsaid (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Village Rise is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to strengthen vulnerable communities by expanding access to essential resources and opportunities.
What it reported doing in 2025
During FY2025, Village Rise continued programs that support people locally in strategically identified communities to design, govern, and where feasible own the community development that happens in their neighborhoods.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -142.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.