How much does Vietnam Veterans of America Inc give?

Vietnam Veterans of America Inc reported 34 itemized grants totaling $1,126,978, out of $1,606,515 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.

What does Vietnam Veterans of America Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Public Benefit (69%), Human Services (29%), Arts & Culture (0%).

Who are Vietnam Veterans of America Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Vietnam Veterans of America California State Council Inc ($1.1M), Vietnam Veterans of America New York State Council Inc ($561k), Vietnam Veterans of America-Nj State Council ($505k).

Does Vietnam Veterans of America Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Vietnam Veterans of America Inc based?

Vietnam Veterans of America Inc is based in MD.

Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Vietnam Veterans of America Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

To support a full range of issues affecting vietnam veterans, as well as, all veterans.

$1.6M

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$158k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$6.1MHuman Services$2.6MArts & Culture$36kFood & Nutrition$26kCivil Rights$22kAnimals$10kHealth$9kEducation$6kOther$0

02FY2026 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 34 grants below total $1,126,978, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,606,515 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $479,537 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 · FY2026

Under $10k3 grants · $22k
$10k–50k24 grants · $519k
$50k–250k7 grants · $586k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VVA CALIFORNIA STATE COUNCIL	$158,072
VVA FLORIDA STATE COUNCIL	$102,061
VVA N YORK STATE COUNCIL	$84,787
VVA MASSACHUSETTS STATE COUNCIL	$71,598
VVA N JERSEY STATE COUNCIL	$59,063
VVA PENNSYLVANIA STATE COUNCIL	$58,488
VVA BUCKEYE STATE COUNCIL	$51,943
VVA VIRGINIA STATE COUNCIL	$36,102
VVA MARYLAND STATE COUNCIL	$33,821
VVA MICHIGAN STATE COUNCIL	$32,123
VVA COLORADO STATE COUNCIL	$28,761
VVA CONNECTICUT STATE COUNCIL	$28,659
VVA ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL	$26,246
VVA MISSOURI STATE COUNCIL	$24,044
VVA ARIZONA STATE COUNCIL	$21,188

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.8M · 48 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.8M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

Still filing today

38%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitArts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsOther

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

VV
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
6× · 2017–2026 · $478k · revenue +36% · 78% of their budget
VV
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA-BUCKEYE STATE COUNCIL INC
7× · 2017–2026 · $415k · revenue +31%
VV
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
7× · 2017–2026 · $396k · revenue +45% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

VF
VVA Florida State Council
one grant, 2024 · $146k
VN
VVA N York State Council
one grant, 2024 · $132k
VM
VVA Massachusetts State Council
one grant, 2024 · $123k

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.

Vietnam Veterans of America South Bay Chapter

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…

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Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Helping veterans with VA problems, rent, utilities, car repairs, moving expenses, food, gas and emergency housing as needed

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Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

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…

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Vietnam Veterans of America Inc

Education, benefit programs for disabled veterans; ptsd programs; scholarships; homeless veterans assistance.

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Vietnam Helicopters

Arts & Culture

Wounded Solders of Republic of Vietnam

Helping the wounded soldiers

Public Benefit

American Veterans Assistance Group of California

Community Improvement

Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 224

aid veterans, veteran families and veteran causes

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Veterans Ancillary Committee

Health

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

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Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc

Public Benefit

Vietnamese American Cultural Alliance

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans of America Inc Chapter; 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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 126 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)

30/32

Grantees still filing

13/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,802,807Public Benefit$169,733Health$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000Education$6,000Civil Rights$5,000

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–26

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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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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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