· Public charity
Vietnam Veterans of America Inc
To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans.
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 34 grants below total $1,286,988 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,932,878 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $645,890 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $567k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $705k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VVA CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL | $191,487 |
| VVA FLORIDA STATE COUNCIL | $123,128 |
| VVA N YORK STATE COUNCIL | $102,846 |
| VVA MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL | $86,872 |
| VVA N JERSEY STATE COUNCIL | $70,082 |
| VVA PENNSYLVANIA STATE COUNCIL | $67,322 |
| VVA BUCKEYE STATE COUNCIL | $63,029 |
| VVA VIRGINIA STATE COUNCIL | $43,688 |
| VVA MARYLAND STATE COUNCIL | $39,930 |
| VVA MICHIGAN STATE COUNCIL | $37,827 |
| VVA CONNECTICUT STATE COUNCIL | $34,100 |
| VVA ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL | $29,913 |
| VVA MISSOURI STATE COUNCIL | $29,184 |
| VVA ARIZONA STATE COUNCIL | $23,344 |
| VVA IOWA STATE COUNCIL | $21,667 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of your 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.
45 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC5× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +36% · 78% of their budget
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA-BUCKEYE STATE COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +31%
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC6× · 2017–2025 · $304k · revenue +45% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- VFVVA Florida State Councilone grant, 2024 · $146k
- VNVVA N York State Councilone grant, 2024 · $132k
- VMVVA Massachusetts State Councilone grant, 2024 · $123k
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.
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.By the late 1970s, it was clear the established veterans…
Helping veterans with VA problems, rent, utilities, car repairs, moving expenses, food, gas and emergency housing as needed
A Veterans organization established whose goals are to promote and support the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans, to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of Vietnam…
Education, benefit programs for disabled veterans; ptsd programs; scholarships; homeless veterans assistance.
Helping the wounded soldiers
To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans. vva is the only congressionaly chartered organization exclusively dedicated to vietnam-era veterans and their families.
aid veterans, veteran families and veteran causes
Veterans affairs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans of America and the most unlike its peers is Mission Pow-Mia. 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 42 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 125 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
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.
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- Who funds Vietnam Veterans of America MI State Council ↗
- Who funds Vietnam Veterans of America Inc Illinois State Council ↗
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Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vietnam Veterans of America Inc 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.