Virginia · Nonprofit
Help Our Wounded Foundation
Help Our Wounded Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $966,351 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($296,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $623k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $966k
- Net assets
- $475k
What Help Our Wounded Foundation does
Mission
Provide access to life-changing hyperbaric oxygen therapy for veterans, first responders, and student athletes who have traumatic brain injuries, concussion, or post-traumatic stress.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through HOW Foundations Veteran Investment Program, Central Nervous Systems Vital Signs neuropsychological evaluations were administered for 62 people across 5 states as a means of baseline mental health screening. Suicide risk was also assessed at this time. The majority of these were veterans, located in the state of Virginia. 1 Civilian, 2 Concussed Student Athletes, and 34 veterans received life-changing hyperbaric oxygen therapy across 2 states. The total number of hyperbaric oxygen therapy that were financially supported by the Help Our Wounded Foundation in 2025 was 1,070.
$361,964 spent95% of program spendingIn our third year of partnership with the Virginia Department of Veterans Services, HOW Foundation provided 20 sessions of life-changing hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Virginia veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries and/or post-traumatic stress. 97% experienced improved brain functioning, as measured by FDA-approved Central Nervous Systems Vital Signs neuropsychological evaluation, which was administered and interpreted by HOW Foundation staff.
$19,740 spentof which $100,000 as grants5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $381,704.
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 2023 to 2024, from $261k to $440k (+69%).
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: 2023 41% · 2024 28% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Help Our Wounded Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Michael Crane
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $81k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Help Our Wounded Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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
Help Our Wounded Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
47% 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 Help Our Wounded Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 58% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of Help Our Wounded Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
Help Our Wounded Foundation draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k 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
Help Our Wounded Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Help Our Wounded 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Help Our Wounded Foundation: 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 Help Our Wounded Foundation?
- Help Our Wounded Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $966,351 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($296,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Help Our Wounded Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $966,351 in grants to Help Our Wounded Foundation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Help Our Wounded Foundation?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $296,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Help Our Wounded Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 15 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