North Carolina Veterans' Writing Alliance Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833631990
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Ashevile, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8284236897
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,152
- Expenses
- $24,834
- Assets
- $69,270
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE HENDERSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVE HENDERSON (PRESIDENT)
- C R TOLER (TREASURER)
- ALLAN PERKAL (SECRETARY)
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
The mission of the nc veterans writing alliance foundation and brothers and sisters like these is to provide healing through the arts and creative writing to veterans of all conflicts in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide workshops and learning opportunities for veterans to participate in creative writing to focus on capturing their stories through narrative and poetry to find the voices that war had taken from them. The organization also organizes readings of the veterans' work and has published and sold compilation books of these stories and poems written by the veterans. The veterans read their stories in public forums and podcasts. These activities are intended to help the veterans in their healing process, which can have collateral benefits that can extend to their families and communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
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: 11.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.79; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.