Voice of Specially Abled People Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475517948
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
Location
West Hills, CA, USA
Phone
3105607265
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Disabled Persons' Rights

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,109,659
Expenses
$458,498
Assets
$2,935,987
Liabilities
$3,364

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • USHA DESAI (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • PRANAV DESAI (Trustee)
  • USHA DESAI (CEO)
  • NIMISH SEVAK (Trustee)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower specially abled people by promoting education, employment, and accessibility.

What it reported doing in 2024

1.provide technology platform: vosap has developed a comprehensive technology platform consisting of digital tools for promoting accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities (pwd). Vosap volunteers are empowered with these tools for promoting awareness for rights of persons with disabilities (pwd). Mobile app vosap has innovative features such as finding wheelchair accessible places near their location, rating of accessibility for any public place, etc. Vosap virtual art gallery of 250 digital artwork on "disability" helps develop compassion for pwd and understanding of the disability sector. Vosap launched virtual at exhibition in 2021 to help connect pwd around the world with producers of innovative assistive devices and services.2.enablement and empowerment of pwd with assistive devices with launch of online system to apply for assistive devices, vosap could expand its impact in india and in the us. Beneficiaries or their non-profit representative or volunteers help apply and submit documents to receive assistive devices for free or at subsidized price that will help them with safer mobility, easier access to education, communicating with others using assistive products and self-employment opportunities.under vosap scholarship program, eligible students with disabilities can pursue college education in the us. During year 2024, seven deaf high school students were recipients of vosap scholarship in California to go to gallaudet university, Maryland and similar colleges for college education.during year 2024, 10,825 + pwd were enabled with assistive devices, prosthetics, self-employment kits and surgical interventions for visual impairment in india.3.advocacy program: in the year 2024 to nurture future compassionate leaders, vosap continued to ignite programs lasting nine months of structured volunteering to develop compassionate youths and leaders of tomorrow which has inspired many students in the USA.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 89
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 44.5%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: $43.9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Limited
    • Conducts field audits: Limited
    • May suspend future funding: Limited
    • Requires financial reports: Limited
    • Conducts site visits: Limited
    • Requires grant agreements: Limited
    • May require repayment: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 58.7%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.4; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 44.5% of revenue deployed · 93.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $427K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.