Veterans & Patriots United

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921411042
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Huntsville, TX, USA
Phone
8329227693
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Residential Mental Health Treatment
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$102,086
Expenses
$104,614
Assets
$3,531
Liabilities
$3,500

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amos Savell (President and Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Amos Savell (President and Executive Director)
  • Troy Yard (Secretary)
  • Dale Inman (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

Veterans and Patriots United (VPU) is a faith-based organization dedicated to helping veterans overcome homelessness, PTSD, addiction, and other service-related challenges. Through sober housing, transportation assistance, peer support, crisis intervention, treatment placement, mentorship, counseling, and community service opportunities, VPU empowers veterans to rebuild stable, productive, and meaningful lives while continuing to serve others.

What it reported doing in 2025

Veteran Peer Support, Community Engagement and Rehabilitation Programs. VPU provided ongoing peer support, mentorship, rehabilitation, and community engagement opportunities designed to improve veterans' long-term recovery, purpose, and quality of life. The organization hosted weekly 12-step recovery meetings for veterans and first responders and partnered with FOB Rasor and Tri-County Behavioral Healthcare to facilitate weekly recovery meetings within the veteran housing pod at Montgomery County Jail. VPU continued its prison ministry partnership with AIMVETS, providing Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) programming and facilitator development for incarcerated veterans within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system. The organization also supported veterans participating in Veterans Treatment Court programs and facilitated attendance for 30 veterans at recovery and healing retreats. Additional programming included veteran beekeeping education, development of income producing beekeeping opportunities, volunteer service projects with community organizations, weekly maintenance and veteran recognition activities at the HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas Vietnam Memorial, Toys for Tots coordination, and a partnership with Heart & Hammer that provided hundreds of volunteer labor hours and more than $100,000 in home repairs, renovations, and mold remediation benefiting disabled veterans. Veterans & Patriots United operates entirely through volunteers, with no compensated officers, directors, or program staff. The organization's leadership team alone contributes more than 5,700 volunteer hours annually, and countless additional volunteer hours are provided by veterans, community members, and partner organizations. This volunteer-driven model allows the vast majority of organizational resources to be directed toward housing assistance, transportation, recovery services, emergency aid, and other programs that directly benefit veterans and their families. Through these peer support, rehabilitation, volunteer service, and community engagement programs, VPU positively impacted hundreds of veterans and their families during 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 94%; rating input score 94

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: -2.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.99; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -90.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 94% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $98K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.