Bergen County American Legion Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455483468
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Montville, NJ, USA
Phone
2014009402
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$385
Expenses
$6,964
Assets
$366,967
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Dennis Duddie (Commander)
  • Vincent Martorano Sr (Vice Commander-Finance Officer)
  • Sophia Dmoch (District Executive Committee Person)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mutual help war-time veteran association fostering veteran rehabilitation, Americanism, children and youth, and patriotic activities.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Bergen County American Legion (BCAL) is the intermediate body between the local 39 Bergen County Posts and the American Legion Department of NJ. BCAL has assisted as a Laison between the two, for the purpose of promoting American Legion programs, including veterans' rehabilitation, children & youth activities, Americanism and patriotic programs, community outreach, as well as serving its 2715 members (2025membership year) within Bergen County. While BCAL has some supervisory power over local posts in Bergen County, our primary purpose is to promote, stimulate, and coordinate American Legion programs so the posts' work is made more efficient.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 27.2%; rating input score 27

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,708.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 52.69; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -17.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 27.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.