Veterans Support Brigade
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821749566
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Saint Cloud, MN, USA
- Phone
- 3204203223
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-32,403
- Expenses
- $30,069
- Assets
- $122,855
- Liabilities
- $5,676
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Norman (President)
- Justin Hegna (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Todd Norman (President)
- Justin Hegna (Vice President)
- Denise Anderson (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support of veterans in the State of MN.
What it reported doing in 2025
Charitable gambling proceeds used to support veterans in the State of MN and other veteran organizations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 75.1%; rating input score 75; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -192.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.09; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -65.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.