Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
VIDA
VIDA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,364 to it, the largest being Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $269k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Vida does
Mission
To promote human and animal health by bringing together the efforts of students, communities and the local healthcare systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vida is a non profit humanitarian association with offices in guatemala and costa rica that helps to empower individuals and provides free medical, dental, and veterinary assistance to needy communities to improve quality of life by offering volunteers from around the world hands-on, eye-opening, mind-enriching experiences.the main goal of Vida volunteer's medical program is to improve the overall health and well being of central american communities by bringing Vida's public health mobile clinics into the rural setting.continued on schedule othe types of service-learning experiences we offer allow students and volunteers around the world an interactive, cultural, engaging adventure that will help them become well-rounded, culturally competent professionals and life-long volunteers.our program focuses on two important areas: prevention and treatment. We promote healthier life styles in central american communities and for students to understand the region's diseases and the conditions that might cause them.many people in central america do not receive regular dental care. By partnering with communities in need and globally-minded volunteers, we are able to provide basic dental…
$1,308,290 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,308,290.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $855k (−22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of VIDA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lucia Lemus
Executive director
Board chair
Danica Pratta
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $60k → $102k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VIDA’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
VIDA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 98% — diversifying over time.
“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
VIDA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229 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
VIDA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VIDA
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Asociacion Vida Volunteers for Intercultural and Definitive Adventures · disregarded
- Asociacion Vida Voluntarios Guatemala · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIDA: 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 VIDA?
- VIDA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $269,364 to it, the largest being Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation ($260,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIDA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $269,364 in grants to VIDA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIDA?
- Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIDA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing