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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

We are the leading voice of the post-9/11 generation of veterans, and we believe the dynamic men and women of our community represent america's future, our next greatest generation.

$475k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION$100,000
LADY VETERANS CONNECT INC$75,000
ACTIVE HEROES INC$75,000
AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS$50,000
FORGOTTEN NOT GONE INC$50,000
PURPLE HEART HOMES INC$50,000
SPARTA INC$25,000
MODERN MILITARY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA$25,000
MINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICA$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%ACTIVE HEROES INC: $75k → 9%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
Vetality Corp

Services for veterans

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2
National Veterans Hiring Association

The support of our sponsors allows veterans to empower veterans, military spouses, and transitioning service members to find meaningful employment opportunities each year. Committed to meaningful opportunity employment advisory councils…

Public Benefit
3
Vets Community Connections

The VCC mission is to assist veterans, military, and their families in successfully integrating into their community by connecting them with local individuals and organizations that can assist them in building thriving lives.

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4
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
5
Home for Veterans Network Launch
Public Benefit
6
American Veterans Assistance Group of California
Community Improvement
7
Pearl With You

To provide a comprehensive range of services to address the unique challenges that veterans face, with a focus on eradicating veteran homelessness.

Community Improvement
8
At Liberty Connections
Health
9
Global Women Foundation and Band of Brothers
Housing & Shelter
10
Veterans & Military Listening Post

Providing organized support to vetrans

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11
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
12
Heroes Linked

Successfully assists veterans, service members in transition, military spouses, and Gold Star families with post-military career success through the Heroes Network program as well as providing awareness of veterans issues.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Forgotten Not Gone. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATIONLADY VETERANS CONNECT: $75,000 · Public BenefitLADY VETERANS CONNECTPURPLE HEART HOMES INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitPURPLE HEART HOMES INCMINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25,000 · Public BenefitMINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICAACTIVE HEROES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesACTIVE HEROES INCAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERSForgotten Not Gone: $50,000 · HealthForgotten N…Modern Military Association of America: $25,000 · Civil RightsModern Mili…SPART A INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsSPART A INC
Public Benefit$250,000Human Services$125,000Health$50,000Civil Rights$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLADY VETERANS CONNECT: $75,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetACTIVE HEROES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPURPLE HEART HOMES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetForgotten Not Gone: $50,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetMINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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