Vet Phoenix

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991386037
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Whittier, CA, USA
Phone
5623478562
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$409,287
Expenses
$328,332
Assets
$148,236
Liabilities
$67,256

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Manuel Gomez (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Manuel Gomez (Executive Director): $91,408 total reported compensation
  • Karisma Margarita Moreno Espadas (Deputy Director): $61,680 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Vet Phoenix is dedicated to uplifting veterans who face challenges in their lives. The organization aims to provide a supportive community that helps veterans navigate lifes struggles and achieve personal growth.

What it reported doing in 2025

Supportive transitional housing and peer support for veterans. The organization provides transitional housing to veterans with an emphasis on justice-involved veterans reentering the community. During the year the organization leased and operated residential housing for veteran participants and delivered a package of supportive services alongside the housing itself: daily meals transportation assistance case management maintained in a client records system and peer support delivered by staff who are themselves veterans and certified peer specialists. The program is designed to stabilize a participants housing first then connect the participant to benefits treatment and other services and support the transition toward independent living. The program was delivered principally under a contract with the County of Riverside and the housing meals transportation and staffing costs of that program make up the program service expenses reported in Part IX column B.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.9%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.45; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.9% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $266K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.