· Public charity
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Services for veterans
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.
To provide a comprehensive range of services to address the unique challenges that veterans face, with a focus on eradicating veteran homelessness.
Providing organized support to vetrans
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
Offer mentoring to army women minorities
Counseling for veteran issues relationships and career guidance
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation and 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.
9 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.
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 CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LADY VETERANS CONNECT ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds Forgotten Not Gone ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Modern Military Association of America ↗
- Who funds MINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPART A INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 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.