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California Veterans Benefit Fund
To provide funding for education and assistance to veterans and their families through veteran service offices located in california.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $45,641 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $65,511 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,870 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CA PRISON AT SOLEDAD | $25,000 |
| CA STATE COUNCIL GOVT | $7,500 |
| CA STATE COUNCIL ZEPHYR | $7,207 |
| DEPT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS | $5,934 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our major purpose is to foster the improvement of the condition of the vietnam era veteran, to promote the social welfare including educational, economic, social, physical and cultural development in the kansas city area..
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.By the late 1970s, it was clear the established veterans…
Veterans Service Organization Chartered By Congress providing Services and Support to Veterans and their Families in need, the Community and our Members.
Assist veterans in need
Helping veterans with VA problems, rent, utilities, car repairs, moving expenses, food, gas and emergency housing as needed
Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.
Helping the wounded soldiers
Education, benefit programs for disabled veterans; ptsd programs; scholarships; homeless veterans assistance.
Non profit Veterans organization to benefit veterans in Virginia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans of America California State Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Son Care Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SON CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATION'S FINEST ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 391 ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 223 ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization California Veterans Benefit Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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