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VETERANS EDUCATION TRAINING & SUPPORT INC

EIN 82-1997192 GAYLORD, MI

Revenue 2024
$907,052
Expenses 2024
$1,029,983

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
1409 W MAIN ST

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

VETS INC operates The Landing Zone a Family Recreation Center. Our MISSION is to make The Landing Zone a special and unique Recreation & Rehabilitation Facility for Veterans and the Community. Our vision of a Veteran recovery center paired with a community recreation center is one of a kind. The tools we use to accomplish our objectives include activities such as individual and group counselling open and league bowling an arcade restaurant and special event venue. Other organizations focus either on Veterans and Veterans Support or Community Recreation activities our mission is to fully integrate those programs for the good of the Community and to bring those with Special Needs into a closer relationship with the Community. In the military a safe place for extracting wounding and inserting reinforcements is The Landing Zone. Our mission is to create a Recreational Facility with a Purpose for Veterans and others within the Community in need of help.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Veteran and Community assistance and integration through job training. VETS INC through its Community Recreation Center "The Landing Zone" provides a place for Veterans to work or gather with others for Support and Understanding with the purpose of helping reintegration with the Community.

  • The proceeds from operation of the Landing Zone are used to provide an Employment Training Program at The Landing Zone. We serve as what the US Department of Labor classifies as a Transitional Employer. We employ individuals who are unable to be employed by normal Employers. We employ individuals who have recently been released from prison we also employ Combat Veterans and others in the community who have PTSD and or Traumatic Brain Injuries or other issues that prohibit them from being able to transition into the Community. We have 2 Manager Level Staff working at The Landing Zone which includes a Restaurant Manager and an Operations General Manager. These two individuals provide training and guidance regarding Food Service work and general Business operations such as machinery repair cleaning and maintenance. We have 2 Manager Level Staff working at The Landing Zone which includes a Restaurant Manager and an Operations General Manager. These two individuals provide training and guidance regarding Food Service work and general Business operations such as machinery repair cleaning and maintenance. We provide employment training and coaching and mentoring to insure that the individual learns about coming to work on time. Notifying with proper notice if unable to come in. Attitude while working and responsibility for completing assigned tasks.

    Expenses $443,353 · Grants $53,710 · Revenue $372,128

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $443,354 · Grants $53,710 · Revenue $450,738

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Ronald LeBourdais

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0

  • Tony Sharkey

    VP - General Manager

    Total calculated
    $123,000
    From this org
    $61,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $61,500
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $61,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $61,500

  • Richard Edmonds

    Legal Counsel - Secty- Treasur

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0

  • Ryan Gray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0

  • Kenneth Crawford

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $907,052
    Expenses
    $1,029,983
    Contributions
    $60,712
    Grants paid
    $112,666
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $795,334
    Expenses
    $810,155
    Contributions
    $10,582
    Grants paid
    $163,687
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $754,492
    Expenses
    $754,193
    Contributions
    $76,283
    Grants paid
    $123,467

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
    $725,835
    Expenses
    $517,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $511,887

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $359,721
    Expenses
    $342,131
    Assets (EOY)
    $460,000

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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.