Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,533 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Paralyzed Veterans of America Spinal Cord Research Foundation does
Mission
Pva research foundation inc., a non-profit organization founded in washington, dc in 1976, is controlled by the paralyzed veterans of america ("pva"), a national organization chartered by the u.s. Congress on august 11, 1971. Pva research foundation is operated exclusively for the scientific, charitable and educational purposes of furthering the technological advances in rehabilitative methods and devices, basic cure, research injury and diseases and other areas beneficial to disabled individuals. The pva research foundation funds neuroscientific research aimed at restoring function and improving the quality of life for paralyzed people. The majority of the pva research foundation's financial, administrative and operating costs are donated free of charge by pva; almost 100% of all funds received by the pva research foundation are spent directly on grants that further its mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide 24 month grants related to spinal cord injury and/or disease in basic scientific research, applied clinical care, and assistive technologies. Grants focus on innovative investigations and post-doctoral fellowships. Grant awards are made based on scientific merit and mission.
$985,129 spentof which $1,060,171 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $985,129.
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.
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 $751k to $4.0M (+439%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Robert Thomas
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $46k → $16k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $4.4M 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH 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
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
95% 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 54% · 2020 97% · 2021 78% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
58% of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH 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 $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Spinal Cord Injury Education & Training Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,533 to it, the largest being NORTHWEST CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $134,533 in grants to PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- NORTHWEST CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA SPINAL CORD RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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 8 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