Taps for Veterans
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475539945
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2402175070
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,376
- Expenses
- $36,648
- Assets
- $73,329
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jari Villanueva (President)
- William Seaman (Vice President)
- Mark Paradis (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Jari Villanueva (President)
- William Seaman (Vice President)
- Suellen Fadgen (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 Corporation is organized exclusively as charitable and educational within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal Revenue law or regulations thereunder, hereinafter collectively referred to as the Code}, for the following purposes: (a}To promote the playing of live TAPS at military funerals and other ceremonies; (b)To facilitate locating competent, trained, live buglers to perform the honorable duty of sounding TAPS at military funerals and ceremonies; (c)To educate, mentor, and provide guidance to buglers seeking to perform live TAPS to the highest professional standards; (d)To educate the general public regarding the history and significance of the bugle call TAPS and its place in our American culture; and (e)To facilitate or sponsor such events or functions that promote or enhance the playing and history of TAPS;
What it reported doing in 2025
100 Nights of TAPS Sounding at the Gettysburg National Cemetery. May 26, 2025 - August 31, 2025. Daily Sounding of TAPS at the WWI Memorial Washington DC January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 31.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -47.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.