Snyder Lewis Welty Post 454
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200961337
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Colon, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2694329088
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,818
- Expenses
- $126,839
- Assets
- $854,561
- Liabilities
- $9,828
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Brian Reed (Commander): $6,409 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a meeting and gathering place for Veterans of the US Armed Forces to socialize and build camaraderie, support veterans and their families, provide patriotic activities, serve the community, provide child/youth activities, and offer education/scholarships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Donations and support of child health and welfare, community programs, school athletics, and academic scholarships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.2%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 12%; rating input score 12
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.74; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.2% of revenue deployed · 12% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 450 of 450 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.