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Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472549082
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8585679191
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $157,279
- Expenses
- $103,737
- Assets
- $121,225
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT SILVERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SCOTT SILVERMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JAY WYLIE (CFO/SECRETARY)
- BILL GORE (DIRECTOR)
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 help every Veteran to thrive, living a successful civilian life and achieving their personal, professional, and family goals by navigating their access to benefits and services and removing any barriers they may have encountered during or after military service or in early transition.
What it reported doing in 2025
Veteran Peer Navigator program helps veterans transitioning from mental health/SUD treatment, the criminal justice system, or seeking a career change become Veteran Peer Navigators (VPNs). In 2025, our organization helped 8 veterans complete the program.The VPNs are hired by our program or other organizations, creating a pathway to employment, stability, and self-sufficiency while supporting fellow veterans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.2%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 24.5%; rating input score 25
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: 34%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 87.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 84.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 79.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.2% of revenue deployed · 24.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.