How much did Paralyzed Veterans of America grant in FY2025?

Paralyzed Veterans of America reported 37 itemized grants totaling $5,754,315, out of $6,160,129 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Paralyzed Veterans of America based?

Paralyzed Veterans of America is based in DC.

Paralyzed Veterans of America

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

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 1947.

$6.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$350k

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$39MRecreation & Sports$5.7MMembership Benefit$5.3MScience & Tech$3.7MHuman Services$1.5MPublic Benefit$485kEducation$100kCommunity Improvement$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 37 grants below total $5,754,315 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,160,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $405,814 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$50k–250k34 grants · $5.1M
$250k+2 grants · $600k

$150,655

Median grant

States reached

$144M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PVA EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION	$350,000
YALE UNIVERSITY	$250,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST CHAPTER PVA	$165,655
TEXAS CHAPTER PVA	$160,655
MID AMERICA CHAPTER PVA	$158,155
NEVADA CHAPTER PVA	$158,155
NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER PVA	$156,655
MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER PVA	$153,155
GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER PVA	$153,155
MID-SOUTH CHAPTER PVA	$153,155
BAYOU GULF STATES CHAPTER PVA	$152,155
WISCONSIN CHAPTER PVA	$152,155
PUERTO RICO CHAPTER PVA	$152,155
MICHIGAN CHAPTER PVA	$150,655
MINNESOTA CHAPTER PVA	$150,655

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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

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.

$53M · 36 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$53M

$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

Still filing today

81%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitHuman ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & 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

TC
TEXAS CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +40% · 58% of their budget
PV
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +70% · 85% of their budget
PV
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA BAY AREA &
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +11% · 99% of their budget

Funded once

AW
AMERICAN WHEELCHAIR BOWLING ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $105k
OZ
OREGON ZOO
one grant, 2024 · $20k
CF
CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%

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.

Paralyzed Veterans of America Vaughan Chapter

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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Lone Star Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America

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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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 1947. following decades of dedicated advocacy and service for other similarly situated veterans, pva was…

Health

Minnesota Paralyzed Veterans of America

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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Paralyzed Veterans of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter

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

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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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Kentucky-Indiana Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc

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 - 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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Disabled American Veterans

The organization helps veterans and their families improve their quality of life.

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Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation

Human Services

Disabled American Veterans of Alabama Inc

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 Dept of Utah

We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them;…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paralyzed Veterans of America California Chapter 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

13%

240,396/1,819,523

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

22/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$45,199,914Education$3,786,500Public Benefit$1,980,005Health$1,900,000Human Services$1,500,189Recreation & Sports$1,328,680

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO2.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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: 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines