Operation Stand Down Tennessee
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621638832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6152481981
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,742,803
- Expenses
- $9,952,308
- Assets
- $14,014,422
- Liabilities
- $1,877,761
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ARLIE V HADDIX (CEO JULY-CUR)
- JASON EVANS (CEO MARCH-JU)
- EDEN MURRIE (CEO JANUARY-)
- DAVE FORD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ARLIE V HADDIX (CEO JULY-CUR): $123,555 total reported compensation
- KYLE STEFFEN (COO): $118,940 total reported compensation
- PENELOPE ANDERSON (CDO): $118,886 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operation stand down Tennessee (osdtn) engages, equips, and empowers military veterans and their families through crisis, career, connection, and community services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other program service accomplishments outreach services: operation commissary - osdtn launched operation commissary in 2021 to address food insecurity among veterans and their families. This program incorporates the basic functions of a food bank with innovative features to break through veteran-specific barriers, including service reluctance, hidden poverty, and lack of awareness. Non-perishable food can be picked up at an osdtn location or at a satellite location like a vfw or student veteran center, or can be delivered to the veteran's residence. 5,001 food bags were provided to 649 veterans. Operation connect - operation connect was launched in 2023 to formalize outreach, engagement, and connection among veterans. Opconnect provides events, meetups, activities, online communication, and partner engagement to give veterans a chance to become a part of a stronger, supportive community of peers. 3,845 veterans were reached with outreach services during 917 engagements.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 30 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $119K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.