Veterans Casting Away Disabilities Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825146109
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
West Liberty, IA, USA
Phone
3193215169
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$117,256
Expenses
$88,760
Assets
$142,572
Liabilities
$556

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RANDY BROWN (PRESIDENT)
  • CHARLES BRIMEYER (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KIRT SICKELS (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RANDY BROWN (PRESIDENT)
  • CHARLES BRIMEYER (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KIRT SICKELS (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)

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 rehabilitative and therapeutic outdoor events for disabled veterans.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization serves disabled veterans by providing rehabilitative an therapeutic fishing event for veterans with life-changing disabilities, including but not limited to: spinal cord injured, visually impaired, amputees, traumatic brain injured, and veterans suffering from PTSD and other mental health impairments. This fishing event is a week-long event and was held at a state park in May 2024

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.