Vocational Coaching and Development Institute Inc.
Legal name: Vocational Coaching and Development Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300550747
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Modesto, CA, US
- Phone
- (209) 342-6707
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,554,988
- Expenses
- $1,254,537
- Assets
- $1,825,037
- Liabilities
- $46,025
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carl Wood (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Melinda Gonser (Board Chair)
- Carl Wood (President & CEO)
- Diane Delucchi (Secretary/Treas)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide meaningful opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to build independence, confidence, and meaningful futures through vocational coaching, transitional coaching, and employment support.
What it reported doing in 2025
VCDI provides services to the consumers in the macro-areas of self-advocacy, community integration and the paramount focus of service provision, employment training, in the form of vocational preparedness, vocational acquisition, and vocational maintenance.In keeping with its innovative view of the importance of consumer employment, VCDI seeks to maintain an "employment first" stragegy with relation to all of the services provided by the program, therefore, it should be noted, though some objectives in areas other than vocational training may be indicated and assigned. All trainings are provided by VCDI vocational support mentors in a matter that: First, imparts the skill targeted in the assigned objective; and second, relates that skill to the individual's goal of employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 19.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.