Veterans Caucus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541422270
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9149231970
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $179,004
- Expenses
- $100,040
- Assets
- $129,215
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAM LUCAS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAM LUCAS (PRESIDENT)
- DALLAS LIPSCOMB (PAST PRESIDE)
- TIMOTHY BONJOUR (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Assist and promote physician assistants who have served in the military and to assist in the advancement of education of veterans in the physician assistant profession.
What it reported doing in 2025
Veterans caucus, inc. Was organized exclusively to identify and recognize those physician assistants and other healthcare providers who have served in uniformed and federal services. The organization has approximately 313 members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 82% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.5%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.1%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.5% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.