Vitamin Angels

What it reported doing in 2025

The vitamin angel alliance is a global public health nonprofit focused on helping underserved, nutritionally vulnerable populations - specifically pregnant women, infants, and children under five - gain access to life-saving and life-changing nutrition solutions. Our programs are designed to strengthen, extend, and amplify the impact of existing health systems and our partner network, which includes governments, ngos, academic institutions, and private sector organizations. Our services focus on delivering evidence-based nutrition solutions during the critical window for growth and development from pregnancy through five years of age. Our nutrition interventions, which are ideally delivered as an integrated package of maternal, infant, and young child nutrition services, include: i) essential micronutrient supplementation, comprising of vitamin a for children under five years of age and unimmap multiple micronutrient supplementation for pregnant women; ii) control of childhood infections that can compromise nutritional status through the deployment of anti-parasitic treatments, primarily albendazole; iii) social and behavioral change interventions that optimize maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, and/or iv) supplementary feeding initiatives for young children. The organization uses an implementation science approach to improve the impact of nutrition policies and nutrition services delivered. We achieve this by understanding barriers and enablers to implementing nutrition interventions, and then identifying and testing possible solutions in an adaptive, iterative manner. Through this process, we foster knowledge exchange, collaboration, and ownership among a range of key stakeholders. This includes assessments of the landscape into which change is being introduced; awareness raising and consensus-building activities among national and local decision-makers and stakeholders; and additional activities with national and local stakeholders to identify, design and test strategies intended to optimize the delivery of nutrition solutions. As strategies for scaling are identified, the organization provides technical assistance in the form of learning solutions, monitoring and evaluation services, and supply chain solutions needed to support deployment of nutrition solutions. Globally, the organization provides its support through nutrition grants that include products and services, technical advisory services, and technical assistance to qualified program partners (including governments and ngos) operating in low and middle income countries designated as experiencing moderate to severe levels of undernutrition, anemia, hidden hunger, and/or prevalence intestinal parasites by the world health organization, as well as the united states, canada, and the united kingdom.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
• Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: $25.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Pass
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings