Little Finger Post No 7731
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237141680
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lake Leelanau, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2316423286
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $468,268
- Expenses
- $37,580
- Assets
- $1,059,635
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Gregory J Mikowski (COMMANDER)
- Jeffrey U LaCross (SENIOR VICE COMMANDER)
- Alfred F Chimoski (JUNIOR VICE COMMANDER)
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
VFW Post 7731 is dedicated to serving county veterans and their families by providing support through community involvement, assistance in times of financial need, and meaningful community service through ceremonial honor guards, public observances on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, participation in community parades, and by maintaining a welcoming post.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the year, the Post undertook a major capital improvement initiative to renovate and modernize its facility to better serve veterans and the community. Renovations included improvements to accessibility for elderly and disabled veterans, electrical and structural upgrades, and modernization of meeting and ceremonial spaces. These improvements enhance the Posts ability to conduct honor guard services, Veterans Day and Memorial Day observances, community gatherings, and provide a welcoming space for veterans and their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 92
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.1%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 64%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th 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: 92%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 28.2; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.1% of revenue deployed · 64% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 14 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX ConferencesMeetings column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticIndividuals column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.