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VIDA VALIENTE FOUNDATION

EIN 85-2650889 SAN CLEMENTE, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,036,386
Expenses 2024
$744,376

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
1000
Street
16 CALLE AMENO

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

VIDA VALIENTE IS ALL ABOUT PERSEVERANCE, RESILIENCE, AND THE BRAVERY IT TAKES TO BE THE FIRST TO DIVE INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY. THE VIDA VALIENTE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS WHO HAVE WORKED HARD TO GET THEMSELVES THROUGH SCHOOL, BUT WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM LEADERSHIP FROM ROLE MODELS WHO GREW UP IN SIMILAR LOW-INCOME BACKGROUNDS. THE FOUNDATION PLEDGES TO SUPPORT 25 STUDENTS A YEAR, FOR THE ENTIRE FOUR YEARS OF THEIR ACADEMIC JOURNEY. THE SCHOLARS THE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS HAVE A GREAT DEAL TO OVERCOME. 90% OF FIRST GENERATION LOW INCOME STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES TAKE OVER 6 YEARS TO GRADUATE. 33% DROP OUT AFTER THREE YEARS. BETWEEN COURSES, JOBS, A LACK OF LEADERSHIP, AND THE SHEER OVERWHELMINGNESS OF LEAVING HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME, IT IS A WONDER EVEN 10% OF THESE KIDS MAKE IT. THE VIDA VALIENTE FOUNDATION IS EQUIPPED TO GIVE THESE STUDENTS THE CONFIDENCE, GRACE AND SKILLS TO CONVERT THEIR PROVEN WORK ETHIC INTO THEIR OWN SUCCESS STORIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF VIDA VALIENTE FOUNDATION IS TO SUPPORT FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS WHO HAVE WORKED HARD TO GET THEMSELVES THROUGH SCHOOL.

  • SUPPORTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS THROUGH LEADERSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP. Our program is a combination of last-dollar scholarships for four years of college as well as a built-in leadership program established to support students as they navigate through the valleys and summits of their collegiate journey.

    Expenses $689,180 · Grants $614,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Susana Drumwright

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Hayes Drumwright

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sam Kaplan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.15

  • Adriel Lares

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.15

  • Ruben Navarro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.15

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,036,386
    Expenses
    $744,376
    Contributions
    $1,196,395
    Grants paid
    $614,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $305,251
    Expenses
    $431,957
    Contributions
    $261,867
    Grants paid
    $360,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $580,737
    Expenses
    $183,431
    Contributions
    $574,803
    Grants paid
    $165,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $912,478
    Expenses
    $2,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $910,398

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Susana Drumwright
Mailing address
16 Calle AmenoSan Clemente CA 92672

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.