Voices for America's Troops
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273519768
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8777756001
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $286,633
- Expenses
- $286,636
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANA T ATKINS (PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- DANA T ATKINS (PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $531,047 total reported compensation
- JAMES O'BRIEN (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $258,846 total reported compensation
- REGINA D CHAVIS (TREASURER/CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $254,628 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Voices for america's troops (voices) was created to maintain a strong national defense and to preserve the earned entitlements of members of the uniformed services and their families and survivors.
What it reported doing in 2019
Education: voices educates the public on legislative and policy challenges affecting the uniformed services and the community of veterans in the united states. It promotes grassroots advocacy to support the medical, health care, financial, educational, training, emotional and other needs of veterans and those who currently serve and sacrifice, in wars and other military operations throughout the world, to protect and sustain freedom to all americans. Voices provides a credible source of information on legislative issues affecting the national defense and military benefits entitlements and offers its membership of nearly 30,000 the means to express their views and support legislation that protects the earned entitlements of the military community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $275K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $531K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.