California · Nonprofit
AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION
AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,482 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($63,915). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $18M
What Amvets Department of California Service Foundation does
Mission
Proudly serves veterans and their families in your community through service programs such as service officers, welcome home program to our homeless veterans, and grants used for various other veteran programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Team amvets thrift stores operate veteran-managed and veteran-run thrift stores in southern and central california. The stores offer donated household items and clothing to the general public at a discounted price. Proceeds from sales of the donated merchandise are used to support the amvets service foundation and its programs which serve veterans within california. The recruiting process of team amvets actively recruits military veterans to work within the thrift stores and service foundation provides additional opportunities to the southern california veteran community and also acts as a form of therapy for veterans returning from combat with post traumatic stress or other mental disabilities.
$9,415,207 spentof which $106 as grants81% of program spendingService to veterans - service officers provide free quality veterans' benefits claims service and information in the areas of education, disability compensation, medical services, hospitalization, and rehabilitation. They are trained in all aspects of veterans affairs benefit regulations, are in tune with veterans' issues, and have knowledge of specific veterans' concerns. Additional services include donated clothing to homeless veterans, donated time, energy and products to the stand downs, discounts provided to veterans, and preferential hiring of veterans.
$1,633,085 spentof which $369,000 as grants14% of program spending"welcome home" - furniture assistance program in partnership with veterans administration to provide furniture and other household items to veterans who have been homeless but are now in the process of rebuilding their lives.
$560,894 spentof which $174,472 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,609,186.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $23M to $20M (−14%).
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 19% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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
Leona Wheeler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $64k → $30k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION’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
AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
52% of AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $81k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION's revenue grew 15% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 269 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Amvets Department of California · exempt
- Amvets National Headquarters · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION?
- AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,482 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($63,915). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $170,482 in grants to AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $63,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMVETS DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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