Vision For Independence Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205900432
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Yakima, WA, USA
- Phone
- 5096540527
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Blind/Visually Impaired Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,987
- Expenses
- $77,143
- Assets
- $157,870
- Liabilities
- $2,481
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Babin OB (President)
People named in this filing
- Chris Babin OB (President)
- Christa Owen (Treasurer)
- Shawn Brazil (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Low Vision Evaluations
What it reported doing in 2025
Low Vision Clinic and Store providing services to residents in surrounding area
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.05; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $82K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.