Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820680624
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Richmond, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4153084234
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,580
- Expenses
- $84,999
- Assets
- $77,913
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bruce Carruthers (President)
People named in this filing
- Jasper Craven (Secretary, E.D.)
- Suzanne Gordon (Director)
- Russell Lemle (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Strengthening care for veterans and the nation.The Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization studying healthcare and other services provided to those who served in the US military, their families, and their communities. VHPI focuses its research and education on how the legislators, the public, and the media can better understand veterans healthcare needs, improve the provision of care to veterans in the public and private sector, and apply VA best practices to the rest of the American healthcare system.We also help community organizations, advocacy groups, public officials, researchers, and the general public understand how the privatization of VA healthcare and benefits affect service quality, democracy, equity, and government budgets. We also advocate for reclaiming and building popular support for public institutions that work for all of us.
What it reported doing in 2025
1 hour invited zoom forum Women Veterans and the Fight to Defend VA Services. moderated by VHPI Senior Policy Analyst Suzanne Gordon about the Trump VAs efforts to undermine care for women veterans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.9%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
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: 30.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.9% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $68K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.