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PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,571,278 to it, the largest being PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ($1,369,535). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$419k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$1.6M
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Paralyzed Veterans of America Great Plains Chapter does

Mission

Regional chapter of the national paralyzed veterans of america whose purpose is to improve the lives of paralyzed individuals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Improvements in the lifestyle benefits of physically impaired persons, support of an education and training center, and related community outreach programs.

    $372,949 spentof which $2,350 as grants$6,974 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $372,949.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($352k) Expenses 100 ($294k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 98 ($345k) Expenses 116 ($340k) Net assets 110 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 106 ($374k) Expenses 118 ($346k) Net assets 99 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 118 ($414k) Expenses 133 ($390k) Net assets 107 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 97 ($341k) Expenses 129 ($378k) Net assets 125 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 119 ($419k) Expenses 140 ($410k) Net assets 124 ($1.6M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (119)Expenses (140)Net assets (124)

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 $1.4M to $1.7M (+16%).

$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.7M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
’20
$5k
’21
$28k
’22
$24k
’23
−$37k
’24
$10k
’25
4.6
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

Mary Bushman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed2910999
Joined··+1+0+1+0
No longer listed··0110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $158k → $198k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER’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

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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

99% 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 PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER.

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 80% · 2022 82% · 2023 80% — 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

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 3 states in all.

NE
DC
OK

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER

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 Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 2%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER?
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,571,278 to it, the largest being PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ($1,369,535). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,571,278 in grants to PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER?
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $1,369,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 5 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