Voter Empowerment Education & Enrichment Movement
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831376993
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5702344124
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voter Education, Registration
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,831
- Expenses
- $91,624
- Assets
- $79,444
- Liabilities
- $1,244
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEIDRE LESENE (PRESIDENT)
- RON BANDES (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARYN FORMLEY (FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DEIDRE LESENE (PRESIDENT)
- RON BANDES (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LANCE MCFADDEN (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Veeem is a faith-based, nonpartisan community organization dedicated to increasing voter turnout in the greater pittsburgh area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.2%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -66.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 61.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 163.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.2% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.