VIP Community Services

Legal name: Vocational Instruction Project Community Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133224700
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Bronx, NY, United States
Phone
718.583.5150
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$106,723,784
Expenses
$104,758,817
Assets
$165,209,242
Liabilities
$126,666,014

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

31 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEBBIAN FLETCHER-BLAKE (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • DEBBIAN FLETCHER-BLAKE (PRESIDENT/CEO): $529,427 total reported compensation
  • FRANK KPLOANYI (CFO): $354,305 total reported compensation
  • OPAL DUNSTAN (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $339,957 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

VIP Community Services offers comprehensive and integrated medical, behavioral health, housing, and wraparound services that promote positive outcomes for the people served, their families, and the community. Driven** : Improving our patients’ and clients’ health and well-being (meaning non-medical factors that affect health) is why VIP was created and why we are here. Everything we do should be toward achieving our mission. Person-Centered** : The person (patient, client, family, VIP team) is at the center of our decisions and will drive how we do things in as holistic a way as possible. Compassionate** : When we are compassionate, we listen, we ask questions, we try to understand where the person is at, we are culturally sensitive, we are understanding. It will help us achieve our mission.

What it reported doing in 2024

As a multi-service community organization, vip community services operates two residential treatment programs with a total of 120 beds for men and women with substance use disorder. Vip also operates shelters for single men, women, and children experiencing homelessness and 792 units of supportive and affordable housing, facilitating a transition to independent living. Vip community services connects all clients in residential treatment, shelter and transitional housing to individualized sud and mental health treatments, health care, and vocational services. Overall, vip community services creates positive outcomes for hundreds of women and men annually in supportive/affordable and residential housing programs. Additional accomplishments are as follows: - stabilized and maintained a census above the established requirement - reduced staff turnover - patient satisfaction exceeding 90% - consistent clinical documentation/compliance (documentation consistent with established timeframes) - reduced significant incidents at the residences - incorporated positive activities into our programming (super bowl party, monthly birthday parties for patients) - timely and accurate cds/ regulatory reporting has remained. - utilization of ebp practices and services into the residential program schedule. - increased numbers of job trainings, ged classes, job fairs and individuals successfully employed through our vocational program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 76% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $149.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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; 77th 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: 1.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.58; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $89.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $529K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $936K reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 20 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.