Texas · Nonprofit
AFTER MILITARY SERVICE
AFTER MILITARY SERVICE (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,857 to it, the largest being THE FLUOR FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $253k
What After Military Service does
Mission
Camp Shield is a divisional dba of After Military Service (AMS), a 501(c)3 organization that was founded in 2017. AMS strives to support the personal and professional success of Veterans and their families by increasing resiliency, life satisfaction and empowering our nation's military families. Camp Shield's mission is to empower Women Veterans - emotionally, socially, and physically, to ensure she thrives after military service. Camp Shield's vision is to reduce the risk of Women Veteran's homelessness, depression, and suicide by providing a secure and comfortable environment for Veterans and their children to heal and grow. To achieve this vision, Camp Shield provides a series of SHE Thrives workshops, mastermind book clubs, peer-to-peer support groups, retreats, and resource referral services. We also collaborate with many other Veteran Service Organizations to partner with and refer our veterans to as needed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2024 Camp Shield received a $150,000.00 grant from the Texas Veterans Commission to add a Financial Assistance program. This program pays for past due rent, mortgage, transportation and utility expenses for veterans, dependents and surviving spouses.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Camp Shield's Financial Assistance Program: Through a grant from the Texas Veterans Commission, Camp Shield provides direct financial assistance to Veterans, their dependents, and surviving spouses facing financial hardship. This support helps meet essential needs such as rent, mortgage, utilities, and transportation, ensuring stability during times of transition or crisis. The program is designed to prevent homelessness, reduce stress, and promote overall well-being by addressing immediate barriers that can impact a Veteran's ability to achieve long-term success. Each request is reviewed with care to ensure funds are distributed responsibly and equitably to those most in need.
$34,594 spentof which $34,594 as grants14% of program spendingCamp Shield's SHE THRIVES Retreats provide Women Veterans and their children with 4-day retreats, held at off-site facilities. The retreats focus on our mission of empowering Women Veterans through emotional strength, social unity, and physical perseverance. By allowing a Woman Veteran's children to attend the SHE THRIVES Retreats, we can provide programming specific to family healing and growth. Our retreat model is easily updated and modified to provide the latest information and healing practices, including traditional therapies and holistic health approaches. We have a licensed therapist in attendance to facilitate some of the workshops and to be there should one of the women or children in attendance need to talk with a therapist. Fishing Retreats are unique multi-day retreats that offer experiences that promote relaxation, connection with nature, and personal growth through interaction with the outdoors. In 2024 we had two SHE THRIVES Retreats and 1 Fishing Retreat.
$50,954 spentof which $45,000 as grants21% of program spendingCamp Shield's SHE THRIVES Workshops, Mastermind Book Clubs and Peer Support Groups: The SHE THRIVES Workshops provide Women Veterans with the knowledge, tools, and experiences to achieve and maintain emotional strength, social unity, and physical perseverance. The workshops are two to six-hour long learning sessions which can be completed within a single day or over several weeks. A few examples of these workshops may include: Emotional Intelligence, Emotion Regulation, Who am I now?, Yoga, Sound and Vibration Therapy, Financial Fitness, and Mind-Body Wellness, Leadership training, and Women's self-defense classes. Workshops are currently offered at least monthly with a licensed therapist in attendance or on-call. Childcare is provided or reimbursed for, if needed. Camp Shield's SHE THRIVES Mastermind Book Clubs provide Women Veterans the opportunity to explore 'personal development/post traumatic growth' focused books with their peers. These facilitated, in-depth conversations, are led by qualified facilitators. Participants are encouraged to give honest feedback, opinions, and to create actionable items that they may incorporate into their lives. Camp Shield's 'Wonder Woman…
$52,600 spentof which $40,000 as grants22% of program spendingCamp Shield's AmeriCorps VISTA Program: Camp Shield had eight AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America) positions and one VISTA Leader position filled at differing times throughout the year. This is a Federal Program that pays the VISTAs a stipend for them to provide Camp Shield with 40 hours/week of service. The VISTA roles build capacity for Camp Shield in positions that include: Salesforce Administration, Outreach, Development, Community Engagement, Marketing & Promotions, Volunteer Coordinator, Program Coordinator, and Grant Coordinator. The value of these AmeriCorps VISTAs for 2024 is equivalent to $230,800.
$50,892 spentof which $40,000 as grants21% of program spendingOther Services/Events : In 2024 Camp Shield also collaborated with other organizations to help our veterans in many different ways. A few examples are: The Women Veteran Empowerment Expo, Back-To-School event, Annual Women Veteran (and children) Holiday Party, Rapid re-housing for homeless veterans, gas and grocery gift cards, providing Christmas trees/decorations, Christmas gifts, Christmas stockings for the children, Holiday meals, educational courses, recreational adventures, and child care assistance.
$52,702 spentof which $20,000 as grants22% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $241,742.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $60k to $273k (+357%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of AFTER MILITARY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maggie Peterson
Founder, President and CEO
Board chair
Melissa Smith
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $35k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFTER MILITARY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFTER MILITARY SERVICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFTER MILITARY SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of AFTER MILITARY SERVICE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 18% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of AFTER MILITARY SERVICE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFTER MILITARY SERVICE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding AFTER MILITARY SERVICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $189k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$189k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AFTER MILITARY SERVICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFTER MILITARY SERVICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFTER MILITARY SERVICE?
- AFTER MILITARY SERVICE (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,857 to it, the largest being THE FLUOR FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFTER MILITARY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $179,857 in grants to AFTER MILITARY SERVICE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFTER MILITARY SERVICE?
- THE FLUOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFTER MILITARY SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing