Visual Aid Volunteers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 756039971
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Garland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9722721615
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,307,323
- Expenses
- $1,017,646
- Assets
- $1,003,922
- Liabilities
- $16,183
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUZANNE DEFORD (President)
- DANA COOPER (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- RHESA HIGGINS (Executive Dir.): $50,726 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Visual aid volunteers, inc is a non-profit braille production center, located in garland, Texas serving clients throughout the united states.
What it reported doing in 2024
Braille transcription services include: textbooks, school projects, tests, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.2%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 38
- Fundraising efficiency: $27.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.99; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.2% of revenue deployed · 38.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $388K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $51K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.