Colorado · Nonprofit
VETERANS PATH INC
VETERANS PATH INC (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,272,089 to it, the largest being WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ($191,037). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $398k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Veterans Path Inc does
Mission
Veteran's path enables returning veterans to rediscover meaning, purpose, and joy in their lives through mindfulness, meditation, and a safe community. Our approach reconnects veterans with strength and service. Through practical tools of meditation and mindfulness, physical and outdoor experiences, and a community of camaraderie, veterans rediscover peace, acceptance, transformation and honor in a new journey forward. Veteran's path builds a community of support for veterans, offering mindfulness, wellness and meditation tools. All our events are offered free of charge for veterans who have served since 1990.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Brave stands for breathwork recalibration and veteran empowerment. The retreat invites women veterans to a 5-day intensive in-person gathering followed by a 12-week practice period online (in groups and individually with veteran's path facilitators) and ending with a 3-day reconvening in-person. Brave supports women veterans struggling with reintegration issues that can include post-traumatic stress, military sexual trauma, substance abuse, and family/caregiver matters. We integrate meditation and mindfulness practices into a disciplined, daily routine that is also full of fun and laughter so that, together, veterans can open up about their experiences and heal inner conflicts they never thought possible. The brave retreats are life changing and offer an opportunity to connect with other female veterans in a safe and supportive environment. Lifetime friendships are formed!
$134,479 spent31% of program spendingAmp dojo - naval special warfare veterans are taking initiative in the fight against suicide by identifying, researching, and validating new mental health treatments. One of the most promising is psychedelic-assisted therapy ("pat"), which continues to headline advances in mental health treatments with ongoing research in hundreds of universities and clinical trials. Veteran's path does not directly administer pat, but our amp dojo meditation program serves as a critical element in stabilizing and integrating the therapeutic impact of an innovative treatment like pat. Amp dojo helps veterans undergoing pat to integrate psychedelic-induced insights, including deconstructing faulty beliefs, restructuring attitudes, challenging assumptions, and healing traumas stored in the body/mind. Learning meditation plays a very important role in successful pat, and amp dojo helps sustain lasting positive change.
$130,527 spent30% of program spendingEvidence based mindfulness training - accelerated mind performance (amptm) training teaches skills for developing mental resilience and agility. The online course meets 1 hour weekly for 6 weeks of instruction. Veterans learn the science of mind-body dynamics, effects of stress on the nervous system, and how to re-engage system regulation and attention after a disruption. Ptsd is a disorder of non-recovery from trauma. The combination of mindfulness training and peer support helps veterans monitor internal stress and maintain self-regulation of the nervous system and emotions, skills critical to self-awareness and self-compassion. Research shows a mindfulness program supported by amp instructional methods found a 50% reduction in arousal regulation, a 30% improvement in concentration, significant improvement in cortisol levels, and 100% self-reported improvement in cognitive, physiological, and relational function. Our instructors are veterans who teach strategies to their peers that lead to a healthier quality of life.
$55,091 spent13% of program spendingOther related programs including: general programs, training, program development, amp women, cp platform, nati guard,
$112,348 spent26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $432,445.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $19k to $490k (+2500%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
David Drake
Executive director - resigned on 10/12/2023
Board chair
Christopher Thorsen
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $236k.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 PATH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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 PATH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
74% 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 PATH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 23% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 39% · 2022 21% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
5% of VETERANS PATH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
VETERANS PATH INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $397k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding VETERANS PATH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $488k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$488k
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 PATH 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS PATH 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 PATH INC?
- VETERANS PATH INC (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,272,089 to it, the largest being WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ($191,037). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS PATH INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,272,089 in grants to VETERANS PATH INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS PATH INC?
- WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC is the largest funder on record, with $191,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS PATH INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 33 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