How much did PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

mid-atlantic

2020

mid-atlantic

2021

one-time bodbod approved

2022

vamid-atlanticone-time bodbod approved

2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$50k–250k33 grants · $5.1M
$250k+3 grants · $1.4M

$153,155

Median grant

States reached

$136M

Total assets

Largest grants

PVA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION$800,000
PVA EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION$350,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$250,000
SOUTHEASTERN CHAPTER PVA$185,155
GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER PVA$165,155
IOWA CHAPTER PVA$163,655
FLORIDA GULF COAST CHAPTER PVA$162,655
MID AMERICA CHAPTER PVA$160,655
WISCONSIN CHAPTER PVA$160,155
LONE STAR CHAPTER PVA$159,155
TEXAS CHAPTER PVA$157,155
VAUGHAN CHAPTER PVA$156,655
NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER PVA$156,655
NEVADA CHAPTER PVA$156,155
MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER PVA$154,155

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$43M · 37 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$43M

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+349%

Still filing today

81%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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TEXAS CHAPTER PVA
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +19% · 52% of their budget
YALE UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +24%
PE
PVA EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +128% · 85% of their budget

Funded once

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AMERICAN LEGION POST 82graduated
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +64%
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HILLVETSgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +349%

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

04Your field

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.

Paralyed Veterans of America

Improve quality of life for paralyzed veterans and persons with spinal cord injuries.

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Paralyzed Veterans of America

Advocating for the special needs of member/veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces who have experienced spinal cord injury and dysfunction.

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Arizona Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc

To improve the quality of life of u.s. military veterans and all who have experienced spinal cord injury/dysfunction through advocacy for proper health care, promotion of sports, education, and communication.

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Paralyzed Veterans of America

Paralyzed veterans of america (pva) was founded by a group of world war ii veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders in 1946. following decades of dedicated advocacy and service for other similarly situated veterans, pva was…

Health

Disabled American Veterans - Dept of Nj

Assistance to disabled american veterans including assistance with claims, information and literature and assist local chapters and coordinate state convention

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Minnesota Paralyzed Veterans of

The minnesota paralyzed veterans of america (mnpva) a minnesota nonprofit organization, is an officially recognized paralyzed veterans of america chapter. mnpva assists veterans with spinal cord injuries or spinal cord diseases, such as ms…

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Lone Star Chapter Paralyzed

The lone star chapter of paralyzed veterans of america is dedicated to taking those actions necessary to restore spinal coard injured or deceased veterans' bodies and life potentials as closely as is humanly possible to those americans not…

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Kentucky-Indiana Chapter of the

The mission of kentucky-indiana chapter of paralyzed veterans of america is to improve the quality of life of u.s. military veterans and others who have spinal cord dysfunction through the use of advocacy, research, sports and recreation,…

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Disabled American Veterans of Texas

Human Services

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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Disabled American Veterans of

Disabled american veterans of alabama, inc was organized as an association of men and women who were wounded, gassed, injured or disabled in the line of duty during time of war.

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Disabled American Veterans

To provide services to individuals who were disabled due to or during their military service.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paralyzed Veterans of America and the most unlike its peers is Yale University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 71 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/41

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$34,914,899Education$3,045,000Public Benefit$1,659,250Health$1,450,000Human Services$1,072,534Recreation & Sports$1,025,225

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.

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.

Others First IncMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Others First Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation PARALYZED 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.

2025

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER PVA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460359947 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER PVA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Paralyzed Veterans of America?

Find your warmest path to Paralyzed Veterans of America through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Paralyzed Veterans of America?

More from the funding graph

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Paralyzed Veterans of America?

More from the funding graph