Vision Y Compromiso

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320071651
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
5103033444
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,864,364
Expenses
$19,780,400
Assets
$18,994,005
Liabilities
$8,306,690

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CYNTHIA ALVILLAR (PRESIDENT)
  • MARIA LEMUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARIA LEMUS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $251,883 total reported compensation
  • MELINDA CORDERO-BARZAGA (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR): $200,024 total reported compensation
  • DEBORAH ARTHUR (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR): $175,218 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Vision y compromiso's mission is to promote community well being by supporting promotoras and community health workers as viable community assets and as agents critical to social change. Vision y compromiso is uniquely positioned to serve these active community members, educators, and liaisons by offering capacity building and research support to the network of promotoras and community health workers (p/chws) and their partner organizations.

What it reported doing in 2024

Outreach and education - vision y compromiso has provided outreach and education, training, leadership development, advocacy, and workforce development programs for promotoras, community health workers and other grassroots community leaders for over 20 years. A predominantly women-led workforce, promotoras provide servicio de corazn (service from the heart) as trusted members of traditionally underserved communities. Critical links to reliable information, they connect community members to local resources and public health, social service, education, housing, and legal systems to advance equity, address the social determinants of health and improve community health outcomes. Vision y compromiso's outreach and education programs, led by community-based promotoras, engage low-income, spanish speaking and immigrant communities in urban and rural regions throughout California to share information and resources on a variety of topics including: prevention and management of chronic disease (diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular disease), mental health (prevention education, early intervention and navigation to mental health services), covid-19 and vaccine promotion, parent leadership, navigating health and other systems, disaster preparedness and extreme heat, substance use, and more.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 61% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $26.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 92%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $16.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 11 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $339K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 26 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 20 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.