Heros Encore
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331851792
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Bellevue, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4025577820
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,941
- Expenses
- $10
- Assets
- $68,050
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Peggy S Frye-Ullom (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Peggy S Frye-Ullom (Executive Director)
- Anna Ash (Strategic Program Director)
- James R Hoy (Operations 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Veteran support and mental wellness through music. Hero's Encore serves veterans and first responders through a structured program of guitar instruction, songwriting workshops, mindset development, and live performance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hero's Encore provides structured music instruction to Veterans, Service Members, and First Responders, focusing on foundational guitar skills, discipline, and consistent participation in a group setting. In 2025, 20 participants were served, with 14 completing the instructional phase. Weekly sessions and peer engagement supported skill development and program progression. Participants advance into guided songwriting, developing original material and creative expression through structured workshops and peer collaboration. Participants developed original music as part of program progression, contributing to 10 completed songs and preparing for public performance. Participants complete the program through public performance, engaging with community audiences and demonstrating developed skills in live settings. In 2025, 10 participants completed the full program and contributed to 50+ live community performances, reaching over 8,000 individuals through public events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38.5%; rating input score 39
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 100%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6,805; rating input score 100; 100th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 38.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.