CharityWatch is unable to rate this organization due to how it is structured. This does not imply a negative or positive evaluation.
Some charities are composed of hundreds of separately controlled, local affiliates:
If a charity's local affiliates are governed by local volunteers that primarily raise and spend donations within their own communities, CharityWatch is often unable to provide a rating. This is because there are no audited financial statements available that include the activities of all of the charity's local groups. Such local charities are often relatively small and not uniformly required to file audited financial statements or full tax forms with the IRS and other government offices. In addition, their financial documents may each reflect different financial periods, making an evaluation of how efficiently the group operates as a whole impracticable, if not impossible to perform. CharityWatch does not currently offer separate ratings on small, local charities.
If a charity publishes consolidated/combined audited financial statements that include the financial activities of its national office as well its local groups, CharityWatch is often able to analyze this document, along with the tax forms of its largest entities, and provide a rating that reflects how efficiently the charity raises and spends public dollars on the whole.
CharityWatch is currently unable to provide Governance & Transparency data for this organization due to how it is structured. This does not imply a negative or positive evaluation or rating.
Some charities are composed of hundreds of separately controlled, local affiliates. These affiliates are often governed by local volunteers that primarily raise and spend donations within their own communities.
CharityWatch is often unable to provide information related to such a charity's governance because this data is not reported in aggregate for all local affiliates. Rather, a separate set of governance data is reported on each affiliate's individual tax form.
Such local affiliates are often relatively small and not uniformly required to file full tax forms with the IRS and other government offices. In addition, their financial documents may each reflect different financial periods, making an evaluation of how well a charity is governed on the whole impracticable, if not impossible, to perform. CharityWatch does not currently offer separate ratings and governance data on small, local charities.
CharityWatch is currently unable to provide a rating for Volunteers of America (VOA) due to how the organization is structured. This does not imply a negative or positive evaluation or rating. Please see the Ratings & Metrics section for more information. Volunteers of America does post on its website (www.voa.org) audited consolidated financial statements reflecting the financial activities of some of the legal entities that comprise VOA as a whole. However, this audit does not contain the financial activities of VOA's local offices. According to its audit of June 30, 2024 (Note 1 re: Nature of business): "...the National Organization provides administrative and management services to 30 locally chartered and unchartered corporations (Local Offices) authorized to operate under the name of Volunteers of America..." The audit does not contain the financial activities of these Local Offices. As previously reported by CharityWatch with respect to VOA's fiscal 2020 financial reporting: VOA also posts on its website a pro forma IRS Form 990. According to its pro forma Form 990 (Schedule O) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, VOA reports re: "the process, if any, used by the organization to review this Form 990" (Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b): "Volunteers of America, Inc. is a church and is not required to file a Form 990 with the IRS. ... A complete copy of the organization's final pro forma Form 990 (including all schedules) is made available to the entire board of directors in advance of providing the Form 990 to charity ratings agencies and publication on the organization's website. "Information above [in the pro forma Form 990] reflects the activities of [the] National Headquarters. Information about the activities of the local affiliates is not available at the National Headquarters. This information may be obtained by contacting each affiliate organization directly." |