Ohio · Nonprofit
VISTA VILLAGE INC
VISTA VILLAGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,180,450 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($2,846,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Vista Village Inc does
Mission
This organization's main activities will be to maintain a residential community that serves as transitional housing for the homeless population. The activities include developing the community, creating partnerships with other organizations, building the community, then providing a home and supportive services to as many homeless residents as possible. These activities are conducted by secretary juan jose perez and other volunteers. The activities will be conducted at a piece of land that has been purchased for this purpose, located off of refugee road in columbus, ohio. 100% of our time will be dedicated to serving the homeless residents. These activities will be funded privately and 100% of the money donated will be spent on these activities. These activities further our purpose by helping homeless people get off of the streets and into permanent housing. Our ultimate goal that we are striving for is to eradicate homelessness in columbus, ohio.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vista village is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a structured, supportive community that helps individuals experiencing homelessness rebuild their lives and transition to long-term independence. The organization serves adults who have experienced significant barriers to housing stability, including homelessness, substance use disorder, incarceration, foster care involvement, and co-occurring mental health challenges. Vista village operates a tiny home community that offers stable, dignified housing in a sober, goal-oriented environment. Each resident lives in a private, fully furnished tiny home and participates in a structured program designed to promote recovery, accountability, and self-sufficiency, while working toward graduation into independent living within 1824 months. The program integrates housing with comprehensive, wraparound support services delivered through onsite programming and community partnerships. Services include case management; primary and behavioral health; workforce readiness and job training; financial literacy education; and assistance with benefits, legal needs, and transition planning. All services are tailored to each residents…
$543,028 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $543,028.
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 $3.6M to $9.8M (+173%).
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.
93% of VISTA VILLAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Juan Jose Perez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $281k → $728k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 VILLAGE INC’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
VISTA VILLAGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 VILLAGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 80% · 2022 56% · 2023 28% — 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
75% of VISTA VILLAGE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
VISTA VILLAGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VISTA VILLAGE INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 VISTA VILLAGE INC: 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 VILLAGE INC?
- VISTA VILLAGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,180,450 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($2,846,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VISTA VILLAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $5,180,450 in grants to VISTA VILLAGE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISTA VILLAGE INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,846,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISTA VILLAGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 30 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