Mil-Tree Veteran Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463595545
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Joshua Tree, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3237912986
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $128,826
- Expenses
- $80,402
- Assets
- $177,295
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Patrick Wallis (President)
People named in this filing
- Cheryl Montelle (Executive Dir.)
- Kristian Lahage (Secretary)
- Mike OConnor (Treasurer)
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
It is our mission to bring together veterans, active-duty military, and civilians in order to help each other address the wounds of the soul through communication and art
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.21; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 52.2%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.