VisionTrust
Legal name: Visiontrust International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841397081
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7192682943
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,061,383
- Expenses
- $2,305,529
- Assets
- $840,359
- Liabilities
- $1,119,533
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF BEHAN (PRESIDENT AN)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF BEHAN (PRESIDENT AN): $72,566 total reported compensation
- DEVLIN DONALDSON (PRIOR PRES A): $48,771 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe that each child living in poverty is Worth More. Peru Short-Term Mission March 27, 2024 Our first short-term mission team of 2024 was a success! We are thankful for Cypress Church and their steadfast and generous support of the Casa. Our first short-term mission team of 2024 was a success! We are thankful for Cypress Church and their steadfast and generous support of the Casa Read More ». As a network of likeminded friends, we are committed to opening doors to real change. We understand that each culture, community, and country is unique, so our approach is too. We embrace three different program models – Learning Centers, Schools, and Orphanages – with the same common goal: changing lives, one child at a time. These children are worth more than their current situation provides Worth a new story that changes their possibilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Visiontrust strives to meet the physical, spiritual and educational needs of orphaned and neglected children in all of its programs. The physical and nutritional needs are met by providing meals and/or healthy snacks, potable water, routine health assessments and urgent health care. Their educational needs are met through schools, tuition assistance and learning centers. Their spiritual needs are developed through sunday school and classroom curriculums. Visiontrust currently serves children at programs in asia, central and south america and africa.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.33; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 85.2% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.