Blue Star Salute Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020763282
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chelsea, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2059374096
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Commemorative Events
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,110
- Expenses
- $59,045
- Assets
- $207,416
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM LONG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TOM LONG (PRESIDENT)
- JEFF NEWTON (1ST VP)
- KEVIN CROUCH (2ND VP)
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
Promote patriotism and honor those who serve, have served, and our fallen heroes by fostering and conducting appropriate honors and respect ceremonies statewide.
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote patriotism by giving banners and flags to families being deployed and to honor all service men and women on armed forces day and donations to va nursing homes and veteran's organizations - to honor veterans and wounded veterans of their past military service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 78; 78th 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: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.