California · Nonprofit
VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS
VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,295 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($115,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $251k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $310k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Veterans Memorial & Support Foundation of Los Gatos does
Mission
(a) - fund in perpetuity, support for the needs of active service members, veterans and their families; educate the community on the sacrifices borne by those who protect america's freedom; erect and maintain a wolrd class memorial in silicon valley that delivers honor, respect, gratitude and healing to those who serve.(b) - to ensure that the memorial to veterans by los gatos is a resource for the historical understanding and recognition of all veterans, past, present, future, living or deceased, who have served, and serving or will serve our nation in the military and/or specialized services, their sacrifices and sacrifices of their families.(c) - to educate the community of los gatos and the surrounding communities on the history of our veterans and their contribution to the american people.(d) - through the foundation, to provide humanitarian support to veterans
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Seven years after it was conceptually developed, the flame of liberty was unveiled on saturday, june 15, 2019, honoring the men and women who fight to protect the united states and died defending our country. Generations will be able to visit the memorial to remember those who have sacraficed of themselves to keep our country safe, and to have the freedoms that we are able to enjoy today.
$58,304 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,304.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $138k to $1.4M (+941%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $51k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS’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 MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2020 50% · 2021 66% · 2022 55% · 2023 49% — 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 VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
55% of VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS'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 $141k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k 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
VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS
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
67%
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 VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS?
- VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,295 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($115,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $310,295 in grants to VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS MEMORIAL & SUPPORT FOUNDATION OF LOS GATOS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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