Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy & Services

Analysis

Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy & Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Rosa, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy & Services reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.1m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $843k to $1.2m (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy & Services sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Seagle Music Colony Inc ($1.2m), Somali Success School ($1.2m) and Universal Education Foundation Offort Wayne Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% and program service revenue 35% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $98k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $711k. At year end it held assets of $515k against liabilities of $370k, net assets of $144k. It reported 18 employees.