Society of American Military Engineers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742622163
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5042823536
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,050
- Expenses
- $39,236
- Assets
- $204,708
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Smith (President)
- Sean Warren (First Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Scott Smith (President)
- Sean Warren (First Vice President)
- Richard Entwisle (CAO)
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
Professional Society
What it reported doing in 2025
Other program services: Grants and Allocations include a $5000 sponsorship + scholarship for the SAME Vicksburg Engineering STEM Camp and $750 in science fair prizes; Program Service Expenses include $895.78 for speaker gifts, $802.26 for a reimbursement for supplies for the SBC Conference Golf Tournament in 2024, and $35 for a check cancellation fee
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.22; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.