Cloud Veterans Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842303848
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9177478329
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,764
- Expenses
- $81,144
- Assets
- $16,278
- Liabilities
- $27,049
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- HAYDEN BRAINARD (DIRECTOR)
- GREG HENSON (OFFICER/DIRE)
- PHILIP LUKZSZONAS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cloud veterans is dedicated to transforming the lives of honorably discharged veterans and transitioning active-duty service members by providing free cloud computing training, certification preparation, exam reimbursement, resume and linkedin support, and job placement services. As a 100% volunteer-run 501(c)(3), the organization bridges the gap between military service and civilian employment, equipping veterans with the skills and credentials needed to launch careers in cloud and ai technology.
What it reported doing in 2025
Military veterans trainings cloud veterans delivers free, structured cloud computing training to honorably discharged veterans and transitioning service members. Training is delivered through online self-paced learning, cohort-based bootcamps, and live instruction covering the major cloud platforms (microsoft azure, amazon web services, and google cloud). Curriculum includes foundational cloud concepts, hands-on labs, and certification exam preparation. In 2025, the organization continued to expand its bootcamp programming and partnered with industry training providers including pluralsight, which named cloud veterans a winner in its 2025 best in tech awards for excellence in workforce development. The program also provides one-on-one mentorship pairing veterans with industry professionals to support skill development and career navigation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.66; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -88% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 70.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.