Totals
- Total revenue
- $1,061,694
- Total expenses
- $739,420
- Contributions and grants received
- $1,061,031
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $39
- Other revenue
- $624
- Total assets, end of year
- $617,671
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $69,817
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $547,854
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $591,961
- Management and general expenses
- $86,760
- Fundraising expenses
- $60,699
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $591,961
Program services were 80.1% 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.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1a · Federated campaigns
$0
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1b · Membership dues
$0
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1c · Fundraising events
$0
-
1d · Related organizations
$0
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$204,655
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$856,376
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$92,900
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2f · All other program service revenue
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
3 · Investment income
total $39 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $39
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $0 · other assets $0
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8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c
$0
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$624
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $624 · related or exempt $624 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0 · program services $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0 · program services $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0 · program services $0
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0 · program services $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $163,396 · program services $127,417 · management and general $10,605 · fundraising $25,374
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $117,909 · program services $95,975 · management and general $6,189 · fundraising $15,745
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $19,643 · program services $15,603 · management and general $1,045 · fundraising $2,995
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11a · Fees: management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $12,068 · program services $0 · management and general $12,068 · fundraising $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $26,250 · program services $0 · management and general $26,250 · fundraising $0
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0 · fundraising $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $137,517 · program services $110,585 · management and general $16,150 · fundraising $10,782
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $218,031 · program services $211,146 · management and general $2,179 · fundraising $4,706
-
13 · Office expenses
total $2,817 · program services $0 · management and general $2,817 · fundraising $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $15,071 · program services $8,656 · management and general $5,318 · fundraising $1,097
-
15 · Royalties
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
17 · Travel
total $26,456 · program services $22,579 · management and general $3,877 · fundraising $0
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
20 · Interest
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
23 · Insurance
total $0 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
-
24a · Other expenses: Corporate filing fees
total $145 · program services $0 · management and general $145 · fundraising $0
-
24b · Other expenses: Test deposits and write-offs
total $117 · program services $0 · management and general $117 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $193,521 · end of year $300,336
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $5
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $50,000 · end of year $302,142
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $10,169
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $5,019
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $17,941 · end of year $69,817
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $121,254 · end of year $95,505
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $104,326 · end of year $452,349
Mission and programs · 2023
Mission
The mission of We the Veterans and Military Families is to empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen America.
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Vet the Vote is a national campaign to recruit veterans and military family members to become the next generation of poll workers. We believe doing so not only fills critical needs for our elections to run smoothly (e.g., poll workers) but also increases overall confidence in our elections due to the trust earned by the veteran and military family community through their service to the nation. This theory has now been validated by a study recently published by the University of Maryland titled, "Recruiting Veterans and Military Family Members Improves Confidence in Elections." Our first campaign around the 2022 elections was a resounding success, recruiting over 63,500 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 nonprofit organizations, predominantly veteran and military family support and engagement organizations, and reaching 20M+ Americans through social, podcast, print, and broadcast media. This work continued throughout 2023, covering off-cycle elections and preparing for the 2024 presidential through deeper engagement with local and state election officials across the country.
Expenses $496,588
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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 influence and violent extremist groups that seek to sow division, implement information and influence operations, and incite our community members to violence. In 2023, we fully built-out an ecosystem of partners from across government, tech, academia, and other mission-aligned organizations to launch, resource, and grow research-backed initiatives. Our goal is to continue to mobilize the community towards specific programs and initiatives which will have a measurable impact on the community, both in terms of reducing participation in targeted violence, but also, critically, in ensuring the maintenance of the veteran and military family reputation and brand. In 2023 we grew our three quarterly working groups: information and influence operations, targeted violence prevention (TVP), and patriotic participation. WTVMF partnered with PsychArmor to turn our information operations working group topics into microlearnings, helping to further educate the veteran and military family population on hostile influence campaigns to continue strengthening our national security.
Expenses $95,220
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Increasing Patriotic Participation. Inspiring more veterans and military family members to engage with the processes and institutions of our self-government catalyzes a cycle of increasing trust and engagement across all Americans. We believe that the veteran and military family community is uniquely positioned to "lead by example", and we are building networks and programs to empower them to do that in new and meaningful ways. This year, We the Veterans and Military Families launched the Vetted Conversations podcast, an edutainment program designed to educate our fellow Americans - particularly the veteran and military family community - on our rights and responsibilities as citizens, promote positive, patriotic engagement (i.e. encouraging veterans to serve their country and communities again), provide timely and accurate information about salient current events, counter propaganda targeting the military and veteran community, and help our community members live their best lives as engaged citizens and leaders. We started a Patriotic Particiption working group to unite VSO, MSOs, and allies in education, academia, and engagement in the non-partisan pursuit of supporting our community to find ways to be good citizens. Vet Public Service, a program to increase veteran and military family member employment in public service, with a focus on state and local government, was conceptualized and thought partners identified, including Service to Service key partner the Volcker alliance. Service to Service is a component of Vet Public Service that supports the overall mission by increasing enrollment by veterans and military family members in public service higher education programs.
Expenses $153
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Vet the News. Vet the News is a news aggregator of articles exclusively by military veteran and spouse journalists and a program to increase participation by this community in media and journalism. Vet the News provides a trustworthy news source that leverages the credibility of these journalists in a landscape of increasingly algorithmically driven media bubbles. In 2023, We the Veterans and Military Families developed the concept, brought together thought partners, and commenced design and UI/UX optimization, with plans to launch web and mobile apps in 2024.
As filed on the 2023 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Ingrid Sundlee
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $97,396
- From this org
- $97,396
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Ellen Gustafson
Executive Director/President
- Total calculated
- $36,000
- From this org
- $36,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 30
-
Ben Keiser
Executive Chairman, Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $30,000
- From this org
- $30,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
-
Anil Nathan
Co-Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
-
Christa Sperling
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
-
Joe Plenzler
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
-
William Braniff
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Maggie Delany
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Noah Kantor
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Mike Smith
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Glenn Schatz
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2023
- Filed
- 14 November 2024
- IRS schema version
- 2023v5.0
- Source object
- 202443209349318244
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