Nevada · Nonprofit
The Wounded Blue
The Wounded Blue (Nevada) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,976 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($933,650). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $839k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $149k
What The Wounded Blue does
Mission
To improve the lives of injured and disabled law-enforcement officers through support, education, assistance and legislation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program 1: Peer Advocate Support & Crisis ResponseDescription: The Wounded Blue operates a nationwide peer-advocate support network for law-enforcement officers who are physically or psychologically injured in the line of duty (or retired and disabled). Each peer advocate is a current or former officer who has lived experience of injury or trauma. The network responds by phone, text and email (including 24/7 confidential hot-line) and connects officers and their families to emotional support, referral services (medical, mental-health, benefits) and ongoing follow-up. According to the organization, the peer-advocate team handles 100 contacts per week on average.
$175,262 spent29% of program spendingProgram 2: Training, Education & Resilience ProgramsDescription: The Wounded Blue provides training and education for law-enforcement officers, spouses, peer-support teams and agencies covering topics such as mental-health awareness, resilience, physical wellness, career survival, family wellness and peer-support build-out. For example, the National Law Enforcement Survival Summit offers multiple sessions in trauma recovery, financial planning, officer/family wellness and peer-support networking
$139,731 spent23% of program spendingProgram 3: Assistance, Advocacy & Legislation SupportDescription: The Wounded Blue provides comprehensive assistance to injured and disabled law enforcement officers and their families, helping them navigate complex benefit systems such as workers' compensation, PSOB claims, EEOC matters, and other administrative, financial, and legislative challenges. In addition to advocacy and awareness efforts that ensure officers are not forgotten or left without support, the organization offers direct financial assistance to bridge critical gaps in existing aid programs. This support includes funding for required medical surgeries needed to recover from physical injuries incurred in the line of duty, as well as advanced surgical procedures, specialty medical treatments, rehabilitative care, long-term recovery therapies, and the acquisition or replacement of prosthetic devices that restore mobility and independence.Recognizing that true recovery extends beyond the physical, The Wounded Blue also prioritizes the emotional and psychological healing of those it serves. The organization provides access to essential mental-health resources such as individual and family counseling, evidence-based…
$134,731 spentof which $160,372 as grants22% of program spendingThe organization convenes annual national summits and benefit events that bring together injured/disabled officers, family members, peer-support volunteers and subject-matter experts for multi-day training, networking, wellness workshops and public awareness of law-enforcement-injury issues
$124,139 spent21% of program spendingThrough the 'Code 4' platform the organization provides injured/disabled officers and families with online access to mobile therapy, tele-medicine, prescription-discount programs and wellness resources to support physical, mental and emotional recovery
$29,940 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $603,803.
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.
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 $61k to $153k (+149%).
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.
100% of The Wounded Blue’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Jesse Watts
Executive director
Board chair
Randy Sutton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $77k → $213k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 The Wounded Blue’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
The Wounded Blue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 The Wounded Blue.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 85% · 2020 46% · 2021 43% · 2022 66% · 2023 54% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of The Wounded Blue's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
92% of The Wounded Blue'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 $129k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Nevada, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
The Wounded Blue has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Wounded Blue
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Wounded Blue: 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 The Wounded Blue?
- The Wounded Blue (Nevada) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,565,976 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($933,650). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Wounded Blue have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,565,976 in grants to The Wounded Blue, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Wounded Blue?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $933,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Wounded Blue find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing