Voluntary Service Overseas USA Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824699627
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2087807500
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
International Relief

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$381,089
Assets
$50,424
Liabilities
$328,523

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • PHILIP GOODWIN (CHAIR)
  • TOM CARVER (MEMBER)
  • MARI SIMONEN (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Voluntary service overseas USA's vision is a fair world for everyone. The purpose of the organization is creating lasting change through volunteering. The values of the organization include collaboration, knowledge, inclusion, and integrity.

What it reported doing in 2025

Vso's volunteering model of development empowers communities and individuals to lead their own development. In doing so, it creates the systemic shifts needed to build a fair world for everyone. Notable projects from us donors, USAID/burma is supporting vso to address the drivers of that tension and conflict by improving social cohesion through increased community resilience involving communities, families, local subsistence farmers, private sector and government authorities. USAID/ philippines is supporting vso to support the strengthening of educational institutions and at the national level and in selected regions in the philippines to improve education, employment, and livelihood outcomes for youth, particularly marginalized youth who are out-of-school.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 3
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 3

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.52; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -23% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.