VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC Chapter 583 Alpena
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382990857
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Alpena, MI, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,985
- Expenses
- $169,322
- Assets
- $185,950
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wayne R Trapp (President)
- Bernard Morasky (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Wayne R Trapp (President)
- Donald Barnard (Secretary Treasurer)
- Bernard Morasky (Vice-President)
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 provide food and toys to those in need during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season each year as well as those in need of food throughout the year
What it reported doing in 2025
Toy Drive Fundraiser.Operation Toys for Kids which is to help over 2300 children in 4 counties that we serve in Northeast Michigan.Also had about 35 families the received food during this same time.All of this to provide for those who would do without.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 62; 62nd 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: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.9% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $166K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.