California · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,823,941 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($80,478,968). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $116M
- Net assets
- $16M
What United States Veterans Initiative does
Mission
The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive services for veteran families - rapid re-housing and homeless prevention with services and temporary financial assistance for low-income veteran families to stabilize in permanent housing.
$29,096,002 spentof which $12,719,259 as grants$2,136 earned by the program32% of program spendingVeterans in progress (vip) - transitional housing and supportive services for veterans experiencing homelessness within a therapeutic community environment with the goal of transitioning them to permanent housing as rapidly as appropriate. Vip offers clinical treatment, bridge housing, low demand, hospital to housing, and service intensive transitional housing models which also incorporate specialized services for veteran sub-populations to include the advance women's program.
$22,584,094 spentof which $18,089 as grants$428,739 earned by the program24% of program spendingRapid re-housing - services and temporary housing and/or financial assistance to assists veterans and individuals in securing and maintaining stable housing.
$5,703,365 spentof which $3,212,170 as grants$423,463 earned by the program6% of program spendingLow demandthis program is one of the models within the overarching veterans in progress transitional housing program. The low demand program assists homeless veterans, primarily chronically homeless veterans, who suffer from mental-health or substance-use problems, or who struggle with maintaining sobriety; and veterans with multiple treatment failures that may have never received treatment services or may have been unsuccessful in traditional housing programs. These veterans may have not yet fully committed to sobriety and treatment. Low-demand housing is a program design using a low-demand/harm-reduction model to better accommodate chronically homeless veterans, and veterans who were unsuccessful in traditional treatment settings. Programming does not require sobriety or compliance with mental health treatment as a condition of admission or continued stay. Overall, demands are kept to a minimum; however, services are available as needed. The goal is to establish permanent housing in the community, while providing for the safety of staff and residents. This program is operated in washington, d.c., houston, phoenix, prescott, las vegas, long beach, inglewood, and barber's…
$34,812,417 spentof which $8,185,305 as grants$4,546,905 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,195,878.
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 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $64M (+100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 83% · 2019 83% · 2020 78% · 2021 84% · 2022 82% · 2023 76% · 2024 84% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% 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.
Board chair
Carlos Contreras
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $5.2M.
23 of 170 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kaiser Foundation Hospitals). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 funders by total. 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
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 48% · 2021 15% · 2022 95% · 2023 19% — 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
43% of UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE has grown faster than half of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $537.9M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$477.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$41.7M
- Department of Labor$17.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE
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
85% 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 33 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- US Vets - Arizona · exempt
- US Vets - Texas · exempt
- US Vets Housing Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: 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 UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE?
- UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE (California) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,823,941 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($80,478,968). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $115,823,941 in grants to UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE?
- STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,478,968 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE 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.
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 170 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