Colorado · Nonprofit
Veterans Exploration Therapy
Veterans Exploration Therapy (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,928 to it, the largest being LYNN R & KARL E PRICKETT FUND ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Veterans Exploration Therapy does
Mission
Veterans Exploration Therapy is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to empower veterans service members and their families through outdoor recreation therapeutic experiences community connection and personal growth opportunities. The organization provides accessible outdoor programs designed to reduce isolation build resilience strengthen family and peer support systems and promote overall wellness among the veteran community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Veterans Exploration Therapy offers outdoor recreation to veterans service members and their families. They are emplowered through learning usable skills and gaining community and connection. In 2025 it conducted 40 single-day programs 2 multi-day programs and assisted 375 participants through local programming.
$39,490 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,490.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Deke Letson
Founder and Executive Director
Board chair
Miller Belmont
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Veterans Exploration Therapy’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
Veterans Exploration Therapy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 Veterans Exploration Therapy.
“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
Veterans Exploration Therapy draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
Veterans Exploration Therapy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Veterans Exploration Therapy
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Veterans Exploration Therapy: 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 Veterans Exploration Therapy?
- Veterans Exploration Therapy (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,928 to it, the largest being LYNN R & KARL E PRICKETT FUND ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Veterans Exploration Therapy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $14,928 in grants to Veterans Exploration Therapy.
- Who is the largest funder of Veterans Exploration Therapy?
- LYNN R & KARL E PRICKETT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veterans Exploration Therapy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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