Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$711,867

Total expenses

$484,163

Contributions and grants received

$711,809

Grants paid

$180,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$58

Total assets, end of year

$243,521

Total liabilities, end of year

$17,941

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$225,580

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$409,554

Management and general expenses

$49,265

Fundraising expenses

$25,344

Program service expenses (Part III)

$409,554

Program services were 84.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• The mission of We the Veterans is to empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen the foundations of American democracy. The Vet the Vote program is committed to recruiting veterans and military family members to become the next generation of poll workers, with 63,000 volunteers recruited in 2022.

  Expenses $409,554

• Increasing Positive Civic Engagement. Inspiring more veterans and military family members to engage with our civic and democratic processes catalyzes a cycle of increasing trust and engagement in our democracy across all Americans. Our primary focus in 2022 was the Vet the Vote program, a national campaign to increase leadership and engagement from the veteran and military family community with our democratic process. We believe doing so will not only fill critical needs for our elections to run smoothly (e.g., poll workers) but also increase overall faith and confidence in our elections due to the trust earned by the veteran and military family community through their service to the nation.Our first campaign around the 2022 elections was a resounding success, recruiting over 63,000 new volunteers to serve as poll workers (representing about half of the projected national gap coming into the cycle), building a coalition of 30+ corporate and non-profit organizations, especially veteran and military family support and engagement organizations, and reaching 20M+ Americans through social, podcast, print, and broadcast media. Expenses for these programs are included in line 4a.

• Innovating a Prevention Ecosystem. The Prevention Ecosystem program builds on the strengths and capabilities of the veteran and military family community to sustainably increase overall resistance and resilience to hostile foreign, anti-democratic, and violent extremist groups that seek to incite our community members to violence. The goal of this program is to establish a new prevention framework across the veteran and military family community and mobilize specific programs and initiatives which will have a measurable impact on the community, both in terms of reducing participation in anti-democratic and extremist violence, but also, critically, in ensuring the maintenance of the veteran and military family reputation and brand. We recognize that no one organization can be successful on its own, and therefore in 2022 we laid the groundwork to establish an innovative multi-sectoral, and multidisciplinary prevention ecosystem that is organized into targeted working groups for collaboration, ideation, and execution. Expenses for these programs are included in line 4a.

• Mitigating the Impact of Deceptive Narratives and Influence Operations. Deceptive narratives and influence operations are not new phenomena, but the immediacy, scope and ease of its dissemination and consumption through digital media present a new set of challenges to our democracy. Given their station of trust and confidence in American society, veterans and military family members are both an opportune target for, but also, a powerful offense and defense to fight back against and mitigate the impacts on our society as a whole. With this in mind, over the past year we have established a first-of-its-kind ecosystem of partners from across government, tech, academia, and other mission-aligned organizations to launch research-backed initiatives that will have a measurable impact. Work has included establishing and running a multisectoral working group, generating prebunking content in conjunction with a partner organization, and distributing content that addressed some of these deceptive narratives. Expenses for these programs are included in line 4a.

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• AAE Film LLC

  $180,000

  The grant was used for the production and distribution of a film exploring veterans' attitudes toward violent extremism in the United States and related impact efforts to increase positive civic engagement of veterans and military families.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• We the Veterans Society for American Democracy

  501 (c) (19) · Empower veterans and military families · DE

  Directly controlled by We the Veterans Foundation

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

11 October 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202302919349301205

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