Vistas Lifelong Learning Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770556142
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8054553889
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Humanities Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,986
- Expenses
- $109,327
- Assets
- $161,454
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathleen Feldsten (C0-President)
- Ted Aragonson (C0-President)
- Robert Benham (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Kathleen Feldsten (C0-President)
- Ted Aragonson (C0-President)
- Sharon Alvardo (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
To provide lifelong learning courses for local seniors
What it reported doing in 2025
Vistas provided 2,890 individual student enrollees 45 courses which included 74 in-person or online sessions in varying topics from "Understanding AI," "Mapping the Earth," "The Voyages of Captain Cook" to "Opera Production."
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.9%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 55.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.