California · Nonprofit
VISIONS MADE VIABLE
VISIONS MADE VIABLE (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,999,764 to it, the largest being Humanity United ($802,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Visions Made Viable does
Mission
The mission statement is: "Helping social visionaries create a better and more just world through fiscal, legal and administrative sponsorship." Our purpose statement is: "We're committed to partner with people of good will regardless of background who have innovative ideas for making the world a better place and genuine commitment to improve the lives of others."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal sponsorship for international Christian missions through Global Serve Teams. Global Serve Teams is a missions organization which provides opportunities for people to serve using their gifts in various capacities throughout the world. Through trips, gap year programs, internships and charity project consulting, Global Serve places people in experiences around the world that connect in God's bigger story. Missions in recent years have gone to Greece and South Africa.
$152,087 spent$164,364 earned by the program7% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship for global community organizing and education. These efforts have included several major projects and multiple minor projects. One project is Tukutana. The Tukutana project has created and sustained employment and entrepreneur training, education support, food relief and developmental partnerships with local social and economic efforts in Uganda. More information at www.tukutana.org Another project is Little Zebra Books. Little Zebra Books is created to publish books and other reading materials in the first language of residents in various countries in southern Africa. Through developing reading materials that especially small children are able to read, they can develop excitement in learning and be inspirations for other family members to learn as well. More information at www.littlezebrabooks.com Another project is Reimagine Peacebuilding Community. Reimagine Peacebuilding Community is a thriving, autonomous activist and peacebuilder-led collective created to establish a sanctuary of replenishment, refreshment and inspiration for global peacebuilders and to lead experiments in the pursuit of transforming the peacebuilding space through action circles. Another…
$435,283 spent$722,173 earned by the program21% of program spendingFiscal sponsorship for Prosperity Homes. Prosperity Homes is intentionally designed to be a unique nonprofit model that connects the real estate and mortgage professionals to building and transforming communities all around the world. We are a membership and volunteer based designed nonprofit, showing the power of community and the power of many. More information at https://www.prosperityhomes.org
$158,769 spent$119,190 earned by the program8% of program spendingInformation regarding other Visions Made Viable projects is at www.visionsmadeviable.org/projects
$1,290,612 spent$1,170,649 earned by the program63% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,036,751.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $472k to $874k (+85%).
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.
99% of VISIONS MADE VIABLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Roger Morton
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $167k → $866k.
13 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 VISIONS MADE VIABLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
VISIONS MADE VIABLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 VISIONS MADE VIABLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 48% · 2019 53% · 2020 21% · 2021 35% · 2022 36% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of VISIONS MADE VIABLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of VISIONS MADE VIABLE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states 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
VISIONS MADE VIABLE is better cushioned than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VISIONS MADE VIABLE
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.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISIONS MADE VIABLE: 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 VISIONS MADE VIABLE?
- VISIONS MADE VIABLE (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,999,764 to it, the largest being Humanity United ($802,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISIONS MADE VIABLE have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,999,764 in grants to VISIONS MADE VIABLE, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISIONS MADE VIABLE?
- Humanity United is the largest funder on record, with $802,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISIONS MADE VIABLE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 32 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