Veterans Rebuilding Life Corp

What it reported doing in 2024

Project 360 is Veterans Rebuilding Life's peer-led suicide prevention and reintegration program for veterans and military families in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The program targets the root causes of veteran suicide (homelessness, financial insecurity, physical and mental health, social isolation, moral injury, and loss of purpose) through a three-phase peer model developed and implemented by trained military veterans. Phase I addresses physical and behavioral health. Peer mentors work with veterans to address urgent health needs, including PTSD, Military Sexual Trauma, TBIs, moral injury, chronic pain, and street homelessness. Veterans are connected to evidence-based and holistic treatment options through community partners, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, family therapy, and peer-led creative arts therapy, trauma-informed yoga therapy, outdoor recreational therapy, and Reiki. Peer mentors also assist with benefits counseling, disability registration, and healthcare enrollment. Phase II addresses financial security, social supports, and long-term housing stability. Using a Housing First approach, peer mentors work to stabilize housing immediately, providing direct financial assistance, rental support, meals, transportation, and essential supplies. Veterans also receive help with vocational training and employment, financial literacy, school enrollment, and case coordination. Phase III focuses on meaningful engagement in service. In the program's final phase, veterans address Morally Injurious Experiences through veteran-driven humanitarian missions and community service. Restoring a sense of purpose and belonging is the last critical protective factor against veteran suicide. Graduates may train as volunteer peer mentors, keeping the program self-sustaining and veteran-driven. In fiscal year 2024-2025, Project 360 served 175 veterans and military family members across New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Since 2011, the program has maintained strong outcomes, including significant reductions in housing instability and consistently low rates of crisis intervention among participants.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 56%; rating input score 56
• Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
• Fundraising efficiency: $624.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: 41.6%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: Limited
• Asset growth: Limited