Virginia · Public charity
Virginians for Veterans
To assist veterans and their families and other charitable organizations with similar charitable purposes
- $357k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $332k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $141k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Virginians for Veterans funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $332k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $259k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $327k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $438k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $329k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $275k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Citadel Foundation | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Liberation Veteran Services Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Operation Healing Forces Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Rick Herrema Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center | $150,000 | 6 | 32% |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Ruyts Foundation | $80,000 | 4 | 38% |
| Richmond Peak Performance | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Veterans and Athletes United Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 14% |
| VMI Foundation | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Virginians for Veterans supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Virginians for Veterans
- How much does Virginians for Veterans give?
- Virginians for Veterans reported 17 itemized grants totaling $331,500, out of $356,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Virginians for Veterans fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (61%), Health (14%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Virginians for Veterans's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Citadel Foundation ($350k), Liberation Veteran Services Inc ($200k), Operation Healing Forces Inc ($160k).
- Does Virginians for Veterans fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginians for Veterans?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Virginians for Veterans based?
- Virginians for Veterans is based in VA.
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