Delaware · Nonprofit
COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,650). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $392k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $378k
What Colonial Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc does
Mission
The pva is dedicated to improving the quality of life for veterans with paralysis due to spinal cord injury or disease and to the protection of their civil rights. Our goal is to ensure the health and well-being of our members and all paralyzed veterans through education, information and referral, medical research, and physical, psychological and recreational therapy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership benefits and accessibility needs: colonial pva supports veterans with spinal cord injuries or disorders by connecting them to vital benefits, recreation and rehabilitation opportunities, and a wide range of social activities. We work closely with va caregivers and facilities to advocate for our members. The hoskins education and reemployment training (heart) program, launched in 2020, provides a 24 week paid fellowship for members, spouses, and caregivers, offering hands on experience and personalized career guidance from a vocational rehabilitation counselor. Our ms program offers weekly outreach and monthly virtual meetings for members with ms, supplemented by information from the baltimore va medical center's ms center of excellence. The women veterans program creates a supportive space for women to connect, share experiences, and advocate for equitable access to healthcare, benefits, and employment. The sports and recreation program provides a wide variety of adaptive sports and recreational opportunities-including paracycling, fishing, billiards, bowling, rugby, shooting sports, and grants to attend the national veterans wheelchair games. These programs empower…
$144,192 spent42% of program spendingPublic affairs: advocacy in the community is a major, ongoing concern. Working with other veteran and disability groups increases public awareness of the potential of paralyzed and disabled persons in the work place and in the community. This program also includes the accessibility needs program: launched in 1985, this program is vital to the disabled community because it provides much needed aids for independent living, such as wheelchairs, prosthetic aids, ramps, wheelchair home and bathroom modifications and vehicle modifications. These items are provided to individuals with low income who cannot afford the items they desperately need. The chapter receives a grant from the state of delaware and supplements the program with gifts from private foundations to ensure that all persons with disabilities, regardless of their veteran or non-veteran status, will receive needed assistance.
$196,609 spentof which $46,165 as grants58% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $340,801.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $436k to $562k (+29%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 31% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 31% · 2024 34% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Jo Ann Bedsworth
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $6k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Paralyzed Veterans of America). These are real filings, and they are not money COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA 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
COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
100% 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 COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 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 COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC'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 $250 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k 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.
Organizations like COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC
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In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC?
- COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,982 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,650). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,982 in grants to COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $45,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLONIAL CHAPTER OF THE PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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