California · Nonprofit
VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER
VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Veterans Navigation Center does
Mission
To help every Veteran to thrive, living a successful civilian life and achieving their personal, professional, and family goals by navigating their access to benefits and services and removing any barriers they may have encountered during or after military service or in early transition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Veteran Peer Navigator program helps veterans transitioning from mental health/SUD treatment, the criminal justice system,or seeking a career change become Veteran Peer Navigators (VPNs). In 2025, our organization helped 8 veterans complete the program.The VPNs are hired by our program or other organizations, creating a pathway to employment, stability, and self-sufficiency while supporting fellow veterans.
$3,891 spent15% of program spendingOur Veteran Peer Navigators connect veterans with resources for benefits, employment, housing, andother transition-related challenges. In 2025, more than 175 veterans reached out for support, receivingguidance, referrals, and ongoing encouragement to help them stay engaged in their recovery and transition goals.
$1,000 spent4% of program spendingWe provided emergency assistance to 9 veterans facing eviction, food insecurity, and other urgentneeds, helping them maintain stability and continue their recovery. Support also includes budgeting
$14,650 spent58% of program spendingVeteran BBQ Event
$5,892 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $6k to $68k (+1070%).
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 VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Scott Silverman
Executive director
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.
From the IRS filings of VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER’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 NAVIGATION CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
53% 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 NAVIGATION CENTER.
“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
88% of VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 NAVIGATION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER: 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 NAVIGATION CENTER?
- VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $85,000 in grants to VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER?
- LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS NAVIGATION CENTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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