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Detroit Chapter 9 of Vietnam Veterans of America Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Detroit Chapter 9 of Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Financial assistance & educational assistance to veterans and to charities who support veterans.

$125k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
—
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2026.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$258kPublic Safety & Disaster$103kHealth$37kPublic Benefit$20kEnvironment$13kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $95,921, the rows itemized in this filing. The $124,837 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,916 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDU$26,667
VVA MI STATE COUNCIL$20,000
FALLEN & WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND$19,887
GOLD STAR FAMILY F&WS$10,000
CASS CATERING LLC$6,767
Individual grant recipient$6,600
DETROIT VETERANS DAY PARADE$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 21%VVA CHAPTER 9 TRUST: $103k → 21%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 4 repeat orgs$807k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$822k
$731k

Still filing today

0%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Public BenefitEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MICH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500k
  • DP
    DETROIT PUB SCHOOLS FOUND
    4× · 2019–2022 · $143k
  • CA
    CIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $103k

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MCIH
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MI
    one grant, 2025 · $250k
  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 9 TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $103k · revenue -95%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MICH: $500,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MICHCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MCIH: $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MCIHCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MI: $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SE MIDETROIT PUB SCHOOLS FOUND: $142,625 · OtherDETROIT PUB SCHOOLS FOUNDCIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATION: $103,125 · OtherCIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATIONFALLEN & WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND: $76,267 · Other+16 more: $198,584 · Other+16 moreVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 9 TRUST: $103,149 · Public BenefitNATIONAL VETERAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $5,500 · Education
Other$1,520,601Public Benefit$103,149Education$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 9 TRUST: $103,149 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNATIONAL VETERAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 9 TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL VETERAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Detroit Chapter 9 of Vietnam Veterans of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Detroit Chapter 9 of Vietnam Veterans of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–26
    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.

    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 24 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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