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GUITARS FOR VETS

EIN 51-0662347 BROOKFIELD, WI

Revenue 2024
$979,355
Expenses 2024
$1,374,388

Program services were 61.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W033
Classification
1200
Street
13400 BISHOPS LN STE 120

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

G4V pursues its mission through free guitar instruction and a new acoustic guitar in a structured program run by volunteers, primarily through the Veterans Administration VA facilities and centers. Veterans are typically referred to the G4V program by their mental health provider. The healing power of music helps veterans deal with PTSD issues.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Guitars For Vets, Inc. is dedicated to sharing the healing power of music with veterans suffering from significant post-combat mental and emotional distress, particularly post traumatic stress disorder PTSD

  • Weekly individual and small group lessons are based on a curriculum designed to allow Veterans to learn at their own pace while accomodating any physical or emotional challenges. Upon completion of the curriculum Veterans are awarded a new guitar and guitar accessory kit. Monthly group lessons, open to past and current students, provide an on-going forum for Veterans to continue their music education. Many graduates become very active in the organization as volunteers. In 2024, the organization graduated over 1,800 Veterans from its instrument lesson program, utilized nearly 1,000 volunteers and provided access to the program in all 50 states. A new service offered in 2024 included periodic songwriting retreats for a select number of instrument lesson graduates.

    Expenses $846,338

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Eric Weinstein

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $81,810
    From this org
    $81,810
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Patrick Nettesheim

    Vice President/Founder

    Total calculated
    $36,156
    From this org
    $36,156
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Pete Ruzicka

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anthony Paolino

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ben Kraft

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Che Bolden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brad Garner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lee Fleming

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joan Doble

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $979,355
    Expenses
    $1,374,388
    Contributions
    $896,347
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,193,995
    Expenses
    $1,114,879
    Contributions
    $1,067,567
    Grants paid
    $120,650
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $921,334
    Expenses
    $835,825
    Contributions
    $834,476
    Grants paid
    $88,825

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $834,687
    Expenses
    $659,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,416,871

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $923,897
    Expenses
    $402,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,211,403

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $819,354
    Expenses
    $530,387
    Assets (EOY)
    $680,016

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010

Tax period
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010
Principal officer
Patrick Nettesheim
Mailing address
PO Box 617Milwaukee WI 53201
Website
www.guitarsforvets.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • Gibson Gives

    $120,650

    2023 Unrestricted donation

  • Gibson Gives

    $81,600

    2022 Unrestricted donation

  • Fairfield County Animal Shelter

    $7,225

    2022 Unrestricted donation

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.