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ES Veterans Association Inc

ES Veterans Association's mission is to provide support and recognition to current and retired U.S. military service members and veterans throughout the greater New England region to ensure they are welcomed home and honored for their service and sacrifices. We provide this honor through volunteerism and education to the greater public…

$390k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$248k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$201k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations ES Veterans Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$248k17%
FY202415$250k47%
FY202314$296k57%
FY20229$234k44%
FY20215$153k40%
FY20203$135kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$475kHuman Services$411kRecreation & Sports$73kCrime & Legal$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHousing & Shelter$20kPhilanthropy$15kArts & Culture$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
CT
KY
VA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

ES Veterans Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWreaths Across America: $490,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTravis Mills Foundation: $165,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Star Mothers of New Hampshire Chapter: $75,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetProject New Hope Inc: $43,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGalaxy Community Council: $40,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $36,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNeny Pga Section Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetConnecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetConnecticut Section Pga Golf Foundation Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetDisabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts Service Fund Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNational Guard Association of Connecticut Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGranite United Way: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSwimming With a Mission Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJohn P Connors Memorial Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHumble Grunt Work Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEast Longmeadow Veterans Memorial Cmte: $10,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetEod Warrior Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFisher House of Boston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Swimming With a Mission Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to ES Veterans Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to ES Veterans Association Inc 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.

About ES Veterans Association Inc

How much does ES Veterans Association Inc give?
ES Veterans Association Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $247,500, out of $390,200 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does ES Veterans Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (45%), Human Services (39%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are ES Veterans Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wreaths Across America ($490k), Travis Mills Foundation ($165k), United Service Organizations Inc ($95k).
Does ES Veterans Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as ES Veterans Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Swimming With a Mission Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is ES Veterans Association Inc based?
ES Veterans Association Inc is based in MA.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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