Veterans' Chow Haul
Legal name: Veterans Chow Haul Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823328397
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8436963848
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Food Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,829
- Expenses
- $3,063
- Assets
- $351
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John B Johnston III (Chairman & CEO (Emeritus))
- David M Candelario (Acting Chairman & CEO)
People named in this filing
- John B Johnston III (Chairman & CEO (Emeritus))
- David M Candelario (Acting Chairman & CEO)
- Col Daniel T O'Brien (Board Trustee)
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 Veterans' Chow Haul will reign — clairvoyant beside commerce — superlative amid the philanthropic.
What it reported doing in 2025
Over 400 home deliveries of groceries to veterans were carried out during the 2025 year. No expenses were incurred by the organization as all labor and transportation was provided by volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -107.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- 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 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.