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California Veterans Benefit Fund at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

California Veterans Benefit Fund

To provide funding for education and assistance to veterans and their families through veteran service offices located in california.

$66k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$73kCrime & Legal$38kPublic Benefit$34kAnimals$20kHealth$2k
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $45,641, the rows itemized in this filing. The $65,511 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,870 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CA PRISON AT SOLEDAD$25,000
CA STATE COUNCIL GOVT$7,500
CA STATE COUNCIL ZEPHYR$7,207
DEPT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS$5,934
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CSC GRANTS: $8k → 9%Veterans Healing Veterans CA Prison System: $3k → 12%American GI Forum of California: $250 → 12%Vietnam Veterans of America #391: $1k → 14%Deported Veterans: $5k → 14%VVA Womens Veterans Committee: $1k → 8%CA PRISON AT SOLEDAD: $25k → 12%Mental Health Matters of CA: $2k → 12%CA Prison at Soledad: $13k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Vietnam Veterans of America #317

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..

Public Benefit
2
Vietnam Veterans of America South Bay Chapter

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…

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3
Veterans Ancillary Committee
Health
4
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc Chapter 862 Southwest Pa

Veterans Service Organization Chartered By Congress providing Services and Support to Veterans and their Families in need, the Community and our Members.

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5
American Veterans Assistance Group of California
Community Improvement
6
Veteran Alliance Usa Inc

Assist veterans in need

Health
7
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Helping veterans with VA problems, rent, utilities, car repairs, moving expenses, food, gas and emergency housing as needed

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8
Vietnam Veterans of America Alaska

Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.

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9
Wounded Solders of Republic of Vietnam

Helping the wounded soldiers

Public Benefit
10
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Education, benefit programs for disabled veterans; ptsd programs; scholarships; homeless veterans assistance.

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11
Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
12
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Non profit Veterans organization to benefit veterans in Virginia

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans of America California State Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL INC: $80,197 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL INCCA PRISON AT SOLEDAD: $37,500 · OtherCA PRISON AT SOLEDADSON CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherSON CARE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $8,346 · OtherDEPT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $5,934 · Other+4 more: $7,250 · OtherVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $2,500 · Public BenefitNATION'S FINEST: $2,000 · Public BenefitVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA: $1,950 · Health
Other$159,227Public Benefit$5,500Health$1,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL INC: $80,197 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSON CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF CALIFORNIA: $1,950 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 391: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 223: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Veterans Benefit Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Veterans Benefit Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to California Veterans Benefit Fund?

    Find your warmest path to California Veterans Benefit Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $14k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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