Vital Access Care Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912170415
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fountain Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7147515805
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,252,848
- Expenses
- $2,205,208
- Assets
- $4,223,156
- Liabilities
- $173,540
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BECKY NGUYEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DUNG HUA (EMPLOYEE): $115,459 total reported compensation
- BECKY NGUYEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $112,963 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The vital access care foundation, dba vietnamese american cancer foundation (vacf) strives to improve the health and well-being of the community through education, research, advocacy, and service.
What it reported doing in 2024
The equity coalition and community building program convenes stakeholders across sectors to address health disparities, housing, and workforce needs in the underserved aanhpi community through collective efforts and equity lens. The program provides trainings to improve the community capacity on different aspects, such as community resources, data inequity, quality improvement, and advocacy, to elevate the voices and representation of the aanhpi residents. In 2024, vacf facilitated various community listening sessions, focus groups, and convenings. The apitf direct care network is a project initiated by the apitf with the goal to increase capacity of the direct care workforce to provide culturally responsive care and services to aanhpi families living in southern California. The project aims to address the lack of direct care services and providers in the community. In 2024, through the project 211 aanhpi caregivers were trained and 340 classes were provided in various asian, native hawaiian, and pacific islander languages.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.2%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,630.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 32.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.2% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $115K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.