Virginia · Nonprofit
LEASHES OF VALOR
LEASHES OF VALOR (Virginia) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,906 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY ($350,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $739k
What Leashes of Valor does
Mission
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. Our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with their recovery through the first-hand knowledge of the industry as well as the unique challenges that veterans face daily(a veteran centric approach). Our vision is to ensure our veterans receive a service dog of the highest caliber that can mitigate their specific disabilities without any tempermental or behavioral issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our program is entitled: Leashes of Valor. The specific purpose of this organization is to raise awareness for disabled us military veterans and to provide physical aid and support for disabled veterans by training and pairing them with service dogs trained specifically to assist them in mitigating their symptoms of ptsd(post-traumatic stress disorder) and tbi(traumatic brain injury). These service dogs reduce the symptoms associated with ptsd and tbi in our veterans, symptoms that can often lead to suicide. These dogs are highly trained by experienced professionals to key in on the veterans' disabilities by providing "alerts" to their specific symptoms the trainers ensure the highest level of obedience and quality of training is achieved before the dog ever leaves the program. Once the dog's training is complete, the dog is paired with a veteran, where the two will be trained together.
$531,444 spent100% of program spendingPublic education and advocacy on behalf of service dogs and veterans.
$106 spent0% of program spendingAssistance for emergency veterinary care for retired working dogs and services dogs to ensure that they receive the necessary care they deserve for serving our nation and our nations warriors.
$830 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $532,380.
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 $300k to $761k (+153%).
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.
95% of LEASHES OF VALOR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $18k → $109k.
11 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 LEASHES OF VALOR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
LEASHES OF VALOR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 LEASHES OF VALOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 42% · 2019 50% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 28% — 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
18% of LEASHES OF VALOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
53% of LEASHES OF VALOR'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 $573k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $636k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
LEASHES OF VALOR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEASHES OF VALOR
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 LEASHES OF VALOR: 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 LEASHES OF VALOR?
- LEASHES OF VALOR (Virginia) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,906 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY ($350,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEASHES OF VALOR have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,209,906 in grants to LEASHES OF VALOR, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEASHES OF VALOR?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEASHES OF VALOR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing