Veterans Away From Home
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943265100
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9166069774
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,109
- Expenses
- $86,682
- Assets
- $45,786
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Erik D Gomez (President)
People named in this filing
- Erik D Gomez (President)
- David Goronja (Secretary)
- Arnel Recidoro (Board Member)
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
To provide support and resources for veterans who are away from home, ensuring they have access to essential services and community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provided opportunities to 40 interested students who attended seminar to learn more on mission of Veterans Away from Home, learn American, Philippine and other countries history and learned the history of Veterans who fought and died for freedom and democracy. They were given opportunity to travel and visit cemeteries of fallen soldiers in Manila, Baguio and Pampanga Philippines. These youth are volunteers who visit and collaborate with schools to spread the mission of the organization and also educate the youth about the fallen heroes. Seminars and meeting with schools in Pampanga benefiting hundreds of elementary and high school students in Pampanga were given the opportunity to learn the mission of the organization and learning the history about the veterans and heroes of war.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 92% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -473.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 32; 32nd 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.