California · Nonprofit
PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION
PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,201,587 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($975,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation does
Mission
The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation was founded in 2003 with a goal to celebrate the "greatest generation." santa barbara and the tri-counties played a vital role in wwii and its men and women have a proud history of service to the nation. The foundation holds various all veterans events throughout the year to support and honor the south coasts veterans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Miscellaneous programs and services to promote the museum and veterans, including the veterans ball to which 550 veterans and active duty personnel attended to hear from dinner speakers and to honor those who have served and are serving.
$167,400 spent90% of program spendingThe pcvf sponsors and organizes various events during the year that honor veterans including parades, fly-bys, luncheons, moving wall and speakers from the united states, england, canada, and france. These events often commemorate historical dates in military history including but not limited to d-day, ve-day, etc.
$19,216 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,616.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $2.2M to $2.1M (−5%).
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.
88% of PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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 narrowed from 9 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $71k → $75k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS 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
PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 60% · 2019 83% · 2020 85% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
13% of PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
100% of PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION?
- PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,201,587 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($975,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,201,587 in grants to PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $975,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 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