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IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,843,948 to it, the largest being CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION ($6,025,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
108
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$2.5M
52/108 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc does

Mission

We are the leading voice of the post-9/11 generation of veterans, and we believe the dynamic men and women of our community represent america's future, our next greatest generation. (continued on schedule o)they are our true north, and iava's work is designed to elevate them, shed light on their concerns, center their stories, and foster their leadership. Iava increases awareness in the media, on capitol hill, and among the public, leading the charge to change the landscape for veterans today. We represent the more than 3.5 million veterans who have served since 9/11. At a time when our veterans continue to lead and set an example of what it means to serve, we must ensure their leadership is seen, heard, and felt by those who are desperately seeking more from their leaders.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Iava provided membership engagement and services by delivering in-person and online programs to build community, transition assistance and leadership development for veterans and their families. Quick reaction force (qrf) is iava's signature case management and referral services program, helping veterans and family members access resources and navigate transition issues related to financial need, legal aid, housing and homelessness, education, employment, mental health, disability claims, and more. During 2023 qrf continued to offer our impressive suite of free to use services, while better controlling costs, and focusing on empowering the community to find the resources they need quickly and effectively. Our on going 24/7 peer support is a best in class lifeline for veterans to connect quickly and digitally with a peer no matter the time of day and no matter the challenges that they face. 2023 was a milestone year for this program: we provided increased specialized transition assistance to veterans and our total number of veterans served surpassed 22,000 lifetime, this year alone helping over 5,700 clients in need. Qrf clients represent all branches of service and live across the…

    $510,801 spent
    24% of program spending
  2. Advocacy programs - iava conducts non-partisan issue advocacy to ensure that iraq and afghanistan veterans and their families are supported, protected and never forgotten. In 2023, iava fought for all of america's veterans, defending their hard-earned education benefits and their employment opportunities, demanding accountability from the veterans administration, standing up for women veterans, fighting for those who suffered from burn pits and other toxic exposures, and more. During the year, iava's staff and members delivered congressional testimonies on issues affecting our community. Additionally, iava conducted its annual comprehensive member survey, the largest non-governmental survey, thousands of members participated and iava was able to ascertain the most urgent policy issues facing the post-9/11 generation of veterans, adjusting and tackling accordingly.

    $780,440 spent
    36% of program spending
  3. Awareness programs - iava works to put new veterans at the center of the national media conversation, as the dominant voice for veterans in american media. Our goal is to connect the 99% of the population who have not served in iraq or afghanistan with the 1% who have. In 2023, iava staff and members were mentioned in thousands of original television and print articles, reaching an audience over 90 million. These astounding efforts were supported by our extensive social media audience; in 2023, our social media followers totalled over 650,000 and our annual #gosilent hashtag campaign for memorial day engaged over 2 million veterans and civilian supporters.

    $871,151 spent
    40% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,162,392.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($254k)2018 Revenue 164 ($7.9M) Expenses 65 ($3.3M) Net assets 1916 ($4.9M)2019 Revenue 69 ($3.3M) Expenses 82 ($4.1M) Net assets 1782 ($4.5M)2020 Revenue 63 ($3.0M) Expenses 66 ($3.3M) Net assets 1676 ($4.3M)2021 Revenue 73 ($3.5M) Expenses 60 ($3.0M) Net assets 1874 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 54 ($2.6M) Expenses 70 ($3.5M) Net assets 1518 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 28 ($1.3M) Expenses 54 ($2.7M) Net assets 980 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 53 ($2.6M) Expenses 50 ($2.5M) Net assets 1001 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (53)Expenses (50)Net assets (1001)Peer revenue range

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 $1.3M to $5.5M (+330%).

$1.3M
$5.5M
$4.9M
$4.7M
$4.9M
$3.9M
$2.6M
$2.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$185k
’17
$4.6M
’18
−$784k
’19
−$268k
’20
$502k
’21
−$904k
’22
−$1.4M
’23
$54k
’24
11
months of
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

Allison Jaslow

Chief executive officer (CEO)

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed3133272023261920
Joined·+6+6+8+5+12+2+10
No longer listed·412152999
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 39 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $802k.

27 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 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

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC.

38%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 83% · 2019 59% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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

39% of IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 27 states

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA 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 IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC?
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,843,948 to it, the largest being CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION ($6,025,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC have?
IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $15,843,948 in grants to IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC?
CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 108 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