How much does Paralyzed Veterans of America give?

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. It funded between 34 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Paralyzed Veterans of America fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (70%), Recreation & Sports (10%), Membership Benefit (10%).

Who are Paralyzed Veterans of America's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation ($4.4M), Texas Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America ($2.7M), Paralyzed Veterans of America North Cent ($2.0M).

Does Paralyzed Veterans of America fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Paralyzed Veterans of America?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Paralyzed Veterans of America based?

Paralyzed Veterans of America is based in DC.

Paralyzed Veterans of America

Paralyzed Veterans of America at a glance 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 it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 37 grants below total $5,754,315, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,160,129 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $405,814 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
NEVADA CHAPTER PVA	$158,155
MID AMERICA CHAPTER PVA	$158,155
NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER PVA	$156,655
MID-SOUTH CHAPTER PVA	$153,155
GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER PVA	$153,155
MID-ATLANTIC CHAPTER PVA	$153,155
PUERTO RICO CHAPTER PVA	$152,155
WISCONSIN CHAPTER PVA	$152,155
BAYOU GULF STATES CHAPTER PVA	$152,155
CAL DIEGO CHAPTER PVA	$150,655
MOUNTAIN STATES CHAPTER PVA	$150,655

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

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.

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%

How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

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 New England Chapter

The new england chapter, paralyzed veterans of america is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization and the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal…

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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

Central Florida Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc

To provide a platform of advocacy, education, and research, communication adaptive sports and recreation for veterans paralyzed as a result of spinal cord injury or dysfunction.

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Paralyzed Veterans of America Mountain States Chapter

The key objective of pva is to take those actions necessary to restore spinal cord injured or diseased veterans' bodies and life potentials as closely as is humanly possible to those americans not suffering spinal cord dysfunction. this is…

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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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Texas Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America

The mission of the texas chapter paralyzed veterans of america is to serve veterans with spinal cord injury/disease, and individuals with disabilities, by providing programs that build a better future for them so they may be active in the…

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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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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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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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Colonial Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc

The pva is dedicated to improving the quality of life for veterans with paralysis due to spinal cord injury or disease and to the protection of their civil rights. our goal is to ensure the health and well-being of our members and all…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paralyzed Veterans of America Tri-State Chapter; 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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

23/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025

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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

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.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home