· Public charity
Virginians for Veterans
To assist veterans and their families and other charitable organizations with similar charitable purposes
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $331,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $356,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 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 $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Liberation Services | $50,000 |
| Citadel Foundation | $50,000 |
| Autism Project of Palm Beach County | $30,000 |
| Operation Healing Forces | $25,000 |
| Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center | $25,000 |
| The Rick Herrema Foundation | $25,000 |
| The Blastology FOundation | $22,500 |
| Valhallas Mission Force | $20,000 |
| VA Army Natl Guard Found | $15,000 |
| Kennerson Randh FOundation | $10,000 |
| VMI Foundation | $10,000 |
| Veterans and Athletes United | $10,000 |
| Natl Center for Health Veterans | $10,000 |
| VSGA military scholarship fund | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post 56 | $9,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
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 +98% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- LVLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +306%
- OHOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +132%
- TRTHE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +356%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $40k
- VFVALHALLA'S FORGE LLCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- VMVALHALLA'S MISSION FORCEone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Helping verterans with short term financial needs
Provide financial support for veterans.
The va veterans foundation is the official 501(c)(3) of the vfw . its mission is to support the programs and operations of the department and to support the military, veterans of the military, and their families.
To provide services for veterans.
WORKING TO HELP REDUCE VETERAN SUICIDE We are currently serving 55 local veterans and a growiing number from the country.
The Organization generates revenue and donates the proceeds to support service-disabled veterans and their families
The organization exists to help veterans of the armed services
Provide help for the veterans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blastology Foundation. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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.
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Ruyts Foundation ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AND ATHLETES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds Valhallas Mission Force ↗
- Who funds AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Blastology Foundation ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Vets On Track Foundation ↗
- Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
- Who funds VSGA-VIP SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post 56 ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEALKIDS ↗
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: 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
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 Virginians for Veterans 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.
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