Vista Ventures Social Impact Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812776349
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6109490460
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,841
- Expenses
- $14,697
- Assets
- $139,566
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- William H Harrington (Director, President)
People named in this filing
- William H Harrington (Director, President)
- Derek J Lobo (Director, Secretary/Treasurer)
- Deborah Drake (Director)
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
The organization seeks to alleviate poverty and improve social conditions, primarily in developing countries with high rates of poverty, through the provision of investment capital to early-stage social businesses and community organizations engaged in, for example, sanitation, water, health, education, and agriculture, among other areas. The organization also gives grants that further these same purposes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Agriculture. We provided monitoring and advice to a provider of agricultural and veterinary products and services to low-income farmers in and around Lusaka, Zambia. The company has an app that is used to maintain contact with its customers and provide education and training on issues related to agriculture. Prior to the end of the year, the company fully repaid the below market interest rate loan of $5,000 which we had provided in September 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.4%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 39.7%; rating input score 40
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: 73.7%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.5; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.4% of revenue deployed · 39.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.