Illinois · Nonprofit
VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC
VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,046,054 to it, the largest being THE DUCHOSSOIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($605,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $413k
What Veteran Business Project Inc does
Mission
Veteran business project promotes veteran small business ownership opportunities by getting military, veterans, and spouses into business. We educate active duty military, veterans, business owners, financial institutions, public and private sectors, the general public, and legislators on the necessity for pro-veteran small business ownership and accompanying, realistic federal and state business lending programs. Veteran business project then connects these groups to facilitate veterans' small business ownership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Veteran business project promotes veteran small business ownership opportunities by getting military, veterans, and spouses into business. We educate active duty military, veterans, business owners, financial institutions, public and private sectors, the general public, and legislators on the necessity for pro-veteran small business ownership and accompanying, realistic federal and state business lending programs. Veteran business project then connects these groups to facilitate veterans' small business ownership.
$296,357 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $296,357.
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 2022 to 2023, from $17k to $719k (+4050%).
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.
105% of VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Charles Lynn Lowder
CEO
Board chair
Dale Eisenberg
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $343k → $285k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC’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
VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 97% · 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.
Where its funders are
68% of VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116 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
VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC's revenue fell 67% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: 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 VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC?
- VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,046,054 to it, the largest being THE DUCHOSSOIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($605,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,046,054 in grants to VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC?
- THE DUCHOSSOIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $605,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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