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Virginians for Veterans

To assist veterans and their families and other charitable organizations with similar charitable purposes

$357k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$990kHealth$220kHousing & Shelter$150kEducation$97kRecreation & Sports$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $331,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $356,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VSGA military scholarship fund$10,000
Kennerson Randh FOundation$10,000
VMI Foundation$10,000
Veterans and Athletes United$10,000
Natl Center for Health Veterans$10,000
American Legion Post 56$9,000
02The need
03

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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Autism Project of Palm Beach County: $30k → 11%Operation Healing Forces: $25k → 13%Seal Kids: $5k → 15%Veterans and Athletes United: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 16 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
-8%

Still filing today

81%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LV
    LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +306%
  • OH
    OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +132%
  • TR
    THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +356%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • VF
    VALHALLA'S FORGE LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • VM
    VALHALLA'S MISSION FORCE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

1
Veterans Independence Foundation

Helping verterans with short term financial needs

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2
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
3
Virginia Veterans Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
5
Veterans Afield Foundation

To provide services for veterans.

Recreation & Sports
6
Team Viac

WORKING TO HELP REDUCE VETERAN SUICIDE We are currently serving 55 local veterans and a growiing number from the country.

Public Benefit
7
Patriot Military Family Foundation

The Organization generates revenue and donates the proceeds to support service-disabled veterans and their families

Public Benefit
8
Veterans of Foreign Wars

The organization exists to help veterans of the armed services

—
9
Veteran Aid Foundation Corp

Provide help for the veterans

Public Benefit
10
3-8 Oif & Oef Veterans Foundation
—
11
Arise Veteran Foundation
Public Benefit
12
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATIONSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDAT…VMI Foundation: $75,000 · EducationVMI FoundationVIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 · EducationVIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION…+1 more: $16,667 · EducationTHE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE RICK HERREMA FOUN…Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center: $150,000 · HealthLonesome Dove Equestr…The Ruyts Foundation: $80,000 · HealthThe Ruyts FoundationRICHMOND PEAK PERFORMANCE: $75,000 · OtherRICHMOND PEAK PERFORM…AMERICAN LEGION POST 5B: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST …Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Valhallas Mission Force: $40,000 · OtherValhallas Mission For…OTHER GRANTS (LESS THAN 5000): $38,000 · OtherOTHER GRANTS (LESS TH…VALHALLA'S FORGE LLC: $25,000 · OtherVALHALLA'S FORGE LLCVALHALLA'S MISSION FORCE: $20,000 · OtherVALHALLA'S MISSION FO…VA Army Natl Guard Found: $15,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $53,000 · Other+6 moreOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING …VETERANS AND ATHLETES UNITED INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS AND ATHLE…RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesRICHMOND FISHER HO…AUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesAUTISM PROJECT OF …+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterLIBERATION …Travis Manion Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBlastology Foundation: $22,500 · Public BenefitSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $10,000 · Public BenefitVets On Track Foundation: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$595,667Health$380,000Other$371,000Human Services$320,000Housing & Shelter$200,000Philanthropy$50,000Public Benefit$32,500Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC: $200,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetLonesome Dove Equestrian Center: $150,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ruyts Foundation: $80,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetVETERANS AND ATHLETES UNITED INC: $75,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetVMI Foundation: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetValhallas Mission Force: $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAUTISM PROJECT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFERRUM COLLEGE: $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVets On Track Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 56: $9,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Virginians for Veterans?

    Find your warmest path to Virginians for Veterans through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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