Alaska Coalition for Veterans and Military Families

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832855885
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2020
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Anchorage, AK, USA
Phone
9073340873
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$108,416
Expenses
$109,882
Assets
$5,449
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MAGEN JAMES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • MAGEN JAMES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • GANAY METOYER (BOARD MEMBER)
  • MARY BETH GOODMAN (BOARD MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Alaska coalition for veterans & military families seeks to better serve service members, veterans and their families in the communities in which they live.

What it reported doing in 2020

Employment alliance: the employment alliance works to identify and partner with organizations that have services, training opportunities, or employment opportunities for service members, veterans, and military family members throughout the state. Furthermore, its purpose is to develop employer training programs for hiring transitioning service members and improve military spouse employment. The alliance meets monthly with the following goals: identify and partner with organizations that have services for service members, veterans and their families in every community hub in Alaska, develop employer resources for hiring transitioning service members, military spouses and veterans, implement agency education program during monthly meetings, improve spouse licensure processes throughout the state. The coalition's employment alliance is a partnership between akcvmf and employer support of the guard and reserve (esgr), jber military and family readiness centers, the Alaska department of labor and workforce development, military one source, and the Alaska national guard.legal alliance: the legal alliance provides resources to the Alaska veterans court and implements legal clinics throughout the state. Goals for the legal alliance include: expand veterans legal clinics throughout the state and relaunch service member & veterans wills clinics throughout the state. The coalition's legal alliance is a partnership between akcvmf and the usarak jag office, the partners reentry center, the state of Alaska court system, Alaska va healthcare services, the Alaska national guard, the jber legal assistance office, Alaska legal services corporation, jber military family readiness centers, and the anchorage reentry coalition.behavioral health alliance: the purpose of the Alaska behavioral health alliance (bha) is to identify and partner with behavioral health organizations that have services for service members, veterans, and families to collaboratively develop and implement additional training opportunities throughout the state of Alaska. The alliance also operates as a central collection point for various training and resiliency opportunities for service providers, service members, veterans and their families throughout Alaska. The coalition's behavioral health alliance is a strategic partnership with akcvmf and the Alaska va healthcare system, jber military family readiness centers, christian health associates, north star behavioral health hospital and chris kyle patriot hospital, Alaska national guard, va vet centers, Alaska office of veterans affairs, Alaska behavioral health association, recover Alaska, state of Alaska health and social services, Alaska community mental health services, the southcentral foundation, and many others.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 36
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 36%; rating input score 36
  • Program expense ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 36

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 36% of revenue deployed · 35.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.