Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Veterans on The Rise Inc
Veterans on The Rise Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,383 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($6,287). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Veterans on The Rise Inc does
Mission
Veterans on the Rise provides a holistic system of care to fight veteran homelessness in the Washington DC metroplex. VOTR offers the resources and opportunities for each homeless or at-risk veteran to overcome the personal and housing challenges they face in order to achieve maximum self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Based Emergency Residential Services (CERS): VOTR provides CERS placement to homeless veterans referred to us by DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. VOTR provides 48 beds, 40 for men and 8 for women, for emergency transitional housing for a period of up to 60 days. Case managers work closely with each veteran to provide both group and individualized care that meet their particular needs. Care includes medical support through the VA Medical Center, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, individual professional counseling, training in life skills and financial management, assistance in finding job training and employment opportunities, and help in finding alternative safe and affordable housing when they are discharged from VOTR. 124 veterans were supported under this program during 2024 and 2025.
$1,352,688 spent$1,529,911 earned by the program51% of program spendingSerious Mentally Ill Transitional Housing (SMI): VOTR has 12 beds dedicated to housing veterans experiencing severe mental illness which puts them at the highest risk of homelessness. Many of these veterans have multiple conditions that make it hard for them to succeed in shelters or in traditional transitional housing programs. These conditions can include, but are not limited to, severe mental illness, co-occurring disorders, PTSD, substance abuse and other medical conditions. These veterans live in a community setting in which they receive 24-hour care from trained specialists for up to 180 days. Care includes physical and mental health support through the VA Medical Center, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, individual professional counseling, training in life skills and financial management, and help in finding alternative safe and affordable housing when they are discharged from VOTR. 81 veterans were supported by this program during 2024 and 2025.
$603,173 spent$885,969 earned by the program23% of program spendingFamily Rehousing and Stabilization Program (FRSP): FRSP is designed to work within the Washington DC continuum of care to support families who experience homelessness or are at imminent risk of homelessness. VOTR works with Washington DC government to provide counseling and support services. The purpose is to support DC residents, who are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of experiencing homelessnes, to achieve stavility in permanent housing through individualized and time limited assitance.
$708,851 spent$1,281,183 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,664,712.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.4M to $4.0M (+68%).
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 82% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 93% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Veterans on The Rise Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
David Kurtz
Executive Director
Board chair
Tamara Alston
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of Veterans on The Rise 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
Veterans on The Rise Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 on The Rise Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“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 on The Rise Inc draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 on The Rise Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Veterans on The Rise Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.4M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$20.4M
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 Veterans on The Rise 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 on The Rise 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 Veterans on The Rise Inc?
- Veterans on The Rise Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,383 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($6,287). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Veterans on The Rise Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,383 in grants to Veterans on The Rise Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Veterans on The Rise Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA is the largest funder on record, with $6,287 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veterans on The Rise Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing