Veterinary Leadership Institute
Legal name: Veterinary Leadership Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454470132
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Myrtle Beach, SC, United States
- Phone
- 5734240063
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $254,181
- Expenses
- $231,840
- Assets
- $131,090
- Liabilities
- $2,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR EMILY TINCHER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DR EMILY TINCHER (PRESIDENT)
- DR JONATHAN DEAR (DIR;PRES ELECT FRM 6/25)
- DR TRAVIS ANDERSON (SECRETARY TO JUNE 2025)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Creating Resilient, Influential Veterinary Healthcare Professionals. The VLI Board of Directors developed the position of Director of Operations to better support our expanding work with Universities, organized veterinary medical associations and private practitioners. The position also serves a critical role in coordinating the organization’s outreach to our VLE alumni. Morgan assumes the day to day administrative operations for the Veterinary Leadership Institute and support the work of our three committees: 1) Program and Facilitator Development, 2) Social Media and Marketing, and 3) Alumni Outreach and Development, while also working closely with the VLI’s Board of Directors, to further the mission of the VLI. About Us The Veterinary Leadership Institute.
What it reported doing in 2024
Veterinary leadership trek-held in hendersonville, nc at kanuga inn and lodging october 23-26, 2025 with 15 participants, 8 staff and volunteers. Trek is a hands-on, immersive program developed by the veterinary leadership institute (vli) to help veterinary healthcare professionals better understand their leadership capacity to experience fulfilling careers.veterinary leadership experience, held in post falls, id at the ross point camp & conference center june 2-7, 2025 with 100 participants, 31 staff, and volunteers. Faculty and private practitioners attended the event to learn the leadership skills necessary to move the veterinary profession forward. 2 students and 1 faculty member from north american veterinary schools, including canada, were invited to attend, for a nominal registration fee. Program participants were involved with lecture, small group activities, and numerous facilitated conversations associated with personal and professional growth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8.8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $171K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.