Ohio · Nonprofit
NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,500 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($265,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Siemer Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundationportfolio match
- Patriot Fund Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $53k → $135k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP 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
NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 2022 67% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP 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 $88k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $620k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Siemer Family Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patriot Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginians for Veteransportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vetsaid Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coalition to Salute America's Heroes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shootout for Soldiers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Independence Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vietnam Veterans of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Combat Veterans Motorcycle Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP 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 NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,500 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($265,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $707,500 in grants to NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL VETERANS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing