· Public charity
Veterans United Foundation
Inspired, created and substanially funded by veterans united home loans employees, VETERANS UNITED FOUNDATION exists to enhance lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 363 grants below total $12,468,078 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,014,473 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,546,395 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
- Under $10k99 grants · $515k
- $10k–50k201 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k54 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDERSON HOMES FOUNDATION | $1,200,000 |
| COYOTE HILL | $600,000 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY | $562,500 |
| FLOURISH | $500,000 |
| ARISE DWELLINGS OF MID-MISSOURI INC | $500,000 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI CASA | $335,000 |
| TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA | $330,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS | $250,000 |
| KVC MISSOURI | $250,000 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY | $187,500 |
| WELCOME HOME INC | $165,000 |
| GRANNY'S HOUSE | $130,000 |
| GUARDIAN HILLS VETERANS HEALING CENTER | $125,000 |
| GUARDIAN HILLS VETERANS HEALING CENTER | $125,000 |
| TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC | $120,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $18.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
434 repeat relationships — 217 still active in FY2025, 217 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HOHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +19% · 28% of their budget
- FLFOSTERING LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITIES7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +230% · 95% of their budget
- VAVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +731% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFriends of Mid Missouri Fisher House Incone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -88%
- CMCENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +104%
- CTCOMO TRAIL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $381k · revenue -58%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
Helping Heroes provides support services and resources to homeless and near homeless veterans, in order to transition them to, or maintain self-sufficiency. The goal is reintegration into society as men and women who currently feel…
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Our mission is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection. our vision is to build a thriving community where service members, veterans, first responders,…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Priority veteran, inc. is engaged in providing supportive services to veterans and their families, primarily in the area of housing.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
To provide housing opportunities for low income households, to serve the needs of homeless military veterans through case management, advocacy, employment opportunities, temporary and permanent housing to advocate for all military veterans.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Cosecha Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
813 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. 813 of the 1,024 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guardian Hills Veterans Healing Center ↗
- Who funds HEROES CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
- Who funds Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds Sheep Dog Impact Assistance ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON HOMES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Mid Missouri Fisher House Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds THE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOB POINT ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI CASA ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds THE BOOT CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY TRAINING INC (TAX) ↗
- Who funds MILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA ↗
- Who funds The Battle Within 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.
Open a dossier: Boone Electric Community Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Boone County Community Trust · Missouri Children's Trust Fund · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Wounded Warrior Project Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Central Missouri Inc · Mfa Oil 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 organization Veterans United Foundation 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.
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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