Vital Villages Or
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990551563
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cottage Grove, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5416000562
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,286
- Expenses
- $100,029
- Assets
- $12,765
- Liabilities
- $13,400
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RANDI ROSS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RANDI ROSS (PRESIDENT)
- CASSANDRA LIGON (TREASURER/BO)
- FRITZ SELLON (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At vital villages or, our mission is to eradicate cycles of harm, stress, and instability for single parents and their children. Through long-term secure attachments, education, community connection, and hands-on peer support, we walk alongside families on their journey from surviving to thriving. Together, we're cultivating resilient communitiesone empowered family at a time.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our program goals are to 1) break cycles of harm: interrupt and break free from patterns of abuse, trauma, and neglect that perpetuate harm, acknowledging that every individual has the right to live a life free from harm. 2) empower single parents: provide resources, education, job training, and mentorship to support single parents in their journey towards economic stability, personal growth, and self-empowerment. 3) normalize the experience of single parenting: destigmatize single parenting by acknowledging its challenges and promoting understanding, empathy, and compassion within our community.4)build a community of support: foster a sense of belonging among single parents, their children, and other caregivers through community events, support groups, and volunteer opportunities. 5) advocate for change: advocate for policy changes and systemic reforms that benefit single parents and their children, ensuring they have equal access to resources and opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
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: -20.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.05; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.