California · Nonprofit
VASA Educational Services
VASA Educational Services (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,097 to it, the largest being JUSTICE OUTSIDE ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $23k
What VASA Educational Services does
Mission
Vallejo Project is a community of volunteers improving student outcomes by connecting youth to multi-generational enrichment and development pathways in communication, trades and wellness.Mission - To transform Vallejo into a healthy and economically robust community by developing the leadership of youth and young adults and improving the systems that impact them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Over the course of three years, the Vallejo Project has achieved significant programmatic milestones and growth in serving youth participants. The organization began by serving 100 youth participants and has since grown by an additional 100 youth participants annually. These achievements reflect the dedication and commitment of the Vallejo Project to its mission of breaking the cycle of violence and economic hardship faced by students in the community.Year 1: Serving 100 Youth ParticipantsWellness Program: In the first year, the Vallejo Project initiated its Wellness Program, known as "Safe Spaces." This program created a nurturing and safe environment for students, fostering positive interactions and building their self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-assurance. The organization trained youth interns as peer Community Health Workers and Youth Mental Health First Aid workers, providing support to their peers in need.Arts and Communication: The Arts and Communication program introduced storytelling as a dynamic and engaging way to enhance language learning and allow young learners to share their voices. Bootcamp filmmaking was taught to provide students with a creative outlet and…
$111,871 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $111,871.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4k to $35k (+718%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
48% of VASA Educational Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Adjoa McDonald
Chair/Founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $14k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of VASA Educational Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
VASA Educational Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund VASA Educational Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
95% of VASA Educational Services's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
VASA Educational Services has grown faster than half of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VASA Educational Services
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VASA Educational Services: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VASA Educational Services?
- VASA Educational Services (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,097 to it, the largest being JUSTICE OUTSIDE ($70,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VASA Educational Services have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $142,097 in grants to VASA Educational Services, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VASA Educational Services?
- JUSTICE OUTSIDE is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VASA Educational Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing