California · Nonprofit
Veterans Research Alliance
Veterans Research Alliance (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,708 to it, the largest being THOMAS M SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST ($62,090). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $0
What Veterans Research Alliance does
Mission
Supporting medical research for U.S. Veterans.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
James R. and Jesse V. Scott Fund for Shingles ResearchThis fund supports the Shingles Research conducted by Dr. Oxman and his team. Dr. Oxman has led the design and implementation of a VA Cooperative Study aimed at developing a vaccine to prevent shingles, a painful viral condition affecting more than a million people in the US each year, including many veterans. As a direct result of his large scale project, the Food and Drug Administration licensed the vaccine and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adults 60 and over be vacinated against shingles. These VRC held funds are intended to build upon this ground breaking research and to identify genetic differences in patients. Dr. Oxman and his team are trying to learn more about how genes may influence how well the vaccine works, and if genetic differences have something to do with the severity of a patient's case of shingles. This vitally important follow up work is currently unfunded and will only move forward because of this VRC funding.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $194k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $63k → $7k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Research Alliance’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 Research Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 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 Research Alliance draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states 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.
Organizations like Veterans Research Alliance
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 Research Alliance: 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 Research Alliance?
- Veterans Research Alliance (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,708 to it, the largest being THOMAS M SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST ($62,090). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Veterans Research Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $69,708 in grants to Veterans Research Alliance.
- Who is the largest funder of Veterans Research Alliance?
- THOMAS M SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $62,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Veterans Research Alliance 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), 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