Michigan · Nonprofit
VISTA MARIA
VISTA MARIA (Michigan) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,438,325 to it, the largest being INSIGHT YOUTH AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ($2,316,265). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 143
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Vista Maria does
Mission
We foster restorative relationships and deliver innovative care, treatment, and education so that vulnerable youth and families believe in their worth, heal and build the skills for success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Specialized, trauma-informed, residential treatment programs focused on providing: 1) intensive short-term residential mental health treatment 2) stabilization and treatment for adolescent female survivors of trafficking 3) extracurricular programs with tutoring, mentoring, and academic and recreational enrichment activities 4) aftercare services for adolescent girls, ages 9 to 18, concentrating on restorative relationships in a trauma informed environment, with participation of other family members.a total of 20,467 days of care provided and 135 girls were served.
$21,792,947 spent$22,623,297 earned by the program80% of program spendingCommunity based services that provide 1) foster care licensing & placement, 2) adoption services, 3) supervised independent living, 4) transitional supportive housing, 5) after-school/stem/mentoring programs and other supportive services. These programs serve children from birth through age 24 and are focused on building restorative relationships for children, youth, and their families.a total of 50,488 days of foster care and 179 youth were served and 16,584 days of supervised independent living and 71 youth were served. 5 adoptions were completed.
$5,315,447 spentof which $1,635,983 as grants$5,521,315 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,108,394.
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.
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 $53M to $63M (+18%).
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: 2017 88% · 2018 81% · 2019 82% · 2020 75% · 2021 69% · 2022 73% · 2023 67% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Zambiasi Megan
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Spinazze Greg
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $852k → $1.4M.
18 of 143 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 VISTA MARIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 143 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
VISTA MARIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
36% 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 VISTA MARIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 75% · 2019 68% · 2020 19% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 11% — 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
42% of VISTA MARIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
85% of VISTA MARIA's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Government funding VISTA MARIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $416k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$416k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like VISTA MARIA
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 14 related entities
- Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco · exempt
- The Good Shepherd Shelter of Los Angeles · exempt
- Good Shepherd Corporation of Atlanta Georgia · exempt
- Insight Youth and Family Services · exempt
- Vista Afforable Housing · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISTA MARIA: 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 VISTA MARIA?
- VISTA MARIA (Michigan) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,438,325 to it, the largest being INSIGHT YOUTH AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ($2,316,265). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISTA MARIA have?
- IRS filings report 143 organizations giving $12,438,325 in grants to VISTA MARIA, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISTA MARIA?
- INSIGHT YOUTH AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,316,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISTA MARIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 143 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