Ohio · Nonprofit
AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC
AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 2178 ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $30k
What American Veterans Appreciation Events Inc does
Mission
To honor veterans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The american veteran appreciation event, inc. (ava) has been incorporated for the purpose of conducting veterans appreciation day in ashland county, ohio. This event educates our community and honors our veterans. The day features a public gathering at our county airport, where we provide military displays, entertainment, fireworks, meals, and a small airshow. The events honors veterans and provides educational value to the community. All expenses are met by local contributors in dollars or in kind. We make no profit from the event and we have no paid employees. All members of the corporation volunteer their time.
$108,144 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,144.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $30k (+40%).
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.
97% of AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dennis Baum
Chair/presid
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC’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
AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC: 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 AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC?
- AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,000 to it, the largest being FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 2178 ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $55,000 in grants to AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC?
- FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES 2178 is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN VETERANS APPRECIATION EVENTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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