Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,615 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF ($17,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $480k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Injury Education & Training does
Mission
Paralyzed veterans of america spinal cord injury education and training foundation, inc. (pva education foundation), a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of delaware on september 24, 1980, is controlled by the paralyzed veterans of america (pva), a national organization chartered by the u.s. Congress on august 11, 1971. The purpose of the pva education foundation is to support institutions, agencies and organizations to ensure quality care in spinal cord injury and disease by improving the ability and competence of health professionals, persons with spinal cord injury and/or disease, families and society. The pva education foundation funds projects to educate paralyzed people and overcome cultural stigmas associated with it. The pva education foundation's primary sources of revenue are contributions from pva, pva chapters and the general public. Substantially all of the pva education foundation's financial, administrative and operating costs are donated free of charge by pva, thus almost 100% of all funds received by the pva education foundation will be spent directly on grants that further the mission of the foundation. The primary purposes of pva are to form a…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Spinal cord injury education - the purpose of the pva spinal cord injury education & training foundation is to support institutions, agencies and organizations to ensure quality care in spinal cord injury and disease by improving the ability and competence of health professionals who care for persons with spinal cord injury or disease, such as caregivers, families and society.
$91,192 spentof which $91,192 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $91,192.
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 2024 to 2025, from $872k to $1.1M (+25%).
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.
97% of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING’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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Shaun Castle
Executive director
Board chair
Tammy Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $29 → $27.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Paralyzed Veterans of America). These are real filings, and they are not money PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING raised.
From the IRS filings of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING’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 SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115 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.
Against its field
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING 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 PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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 19 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Paralyzed Veterans of America · exempt
- Pva Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING: 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 PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING?
- PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,615 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF ($17,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,615 in grants to PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING?
- NORTHWEST CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD INJURY EDUCATION & TRAINING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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