Vista Village Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843029795
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6146202545
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,613,739
- Expenses
- $556,213
- Assets
- $11,266,298
- Liabilities
- $2,344,149
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- SCOTT GROTELUSHEN (TREASURER)
- JOAN PEREZ (SECRETARY)
- JUAN JOSE PEREZ (CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This organization's main activities will be to maintain a residential community that serves as transitional housing for the homeless population. The activities include developing the community, creating partnerships with other organizations, building the community, then providing a home and supportive services to as many homeless residents as possible. These activities are conducted by secretary juan jose perez and other volunteers. The activities will be conducted at a piece of land that has been purchased for this purpose, located off of refugee road in columbus, Ohio. 100% of our time will be dedicated to serving the homeless residents. These activities will be funded privately and 100% of the money donated will be spent on these activities. These activities further our purpose by helping homeless people get off of the streets and into permanent housing. Our ultimate goal that we are striving for is to eradicate homelessness in columbus, Ohio.
What it reported doing in 2025
Vista village is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a structured, supportive community that helps individuals experiencing homelessness rebuild their lives and transition to long-term independence. The organization serves adults who have experienced significant barriers to housing stability, including homelessness, substance use disorder, incarceration, foster care involvement, and co-occurring mental health challenges. Vista village operates a tiny home community that offers stable, dignified housing in a sober, goal-oriented environment. Each resident lives in a private, fully furnished tiny home and participates in a structured program designed to promote recovery, accountability, and self-sufficiency, while working toward graduation into independent living within 1824 months. The program integrates housing with comprehensive, wraparound support services delivered through onsite programming and community partnerships. Services include case management; primary and behavioral health; workforce readiness and job training; financial literacy education; and assistance with benefits, legal needs, and transition planning. All services are tailored to each residents individual goals and needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 65.5%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.26; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 45.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 46.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $543K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.