Vista Terrace Commercial Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
811219515
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lake Forest, CA, USA
Phone
9492549037
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,392
Expenses
$49,686
Assets
$36,414

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • John Heinaman (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

Title holding and management of property.

What it reported doing in 2025

Managing the property.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.