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VetFund Foundation

VetFund Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,126 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$311k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$83k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What VetFund Foundation does

Mission

The mission of the VetFund Foundation is to support projects and programs that enrich the lives of California veterans and their families, and active duty service members, and to advocate for veterans issues and veteran services in the state

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Annual Leadership Summit, Golf Tournament fundraiser, Casino Night and Legislators Reception

    $377,867 spentof which $4,169 as grants$310,087 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $377,867.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($119k) Expenses 100 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($105k)2018 Revenue 75 ($89k) Expenses 99 ($138k) Net assets 54 ($57k)2019 Revenue 96 ($114k) Expenses 82 ($114k) Net assets 54 ($57k)2020 Revenue 37 ($44k) Expenses 53 ($73k) Net assets 26 ($28k)2021 Revenue 132 ($158k) Expenses 83 ($115k) Net assets 66 ($70k)2022 Revenue 300 ($358k) Expenses 124 ($173k) Net assets 243 ($256k)2023 Revenue 164 ($196k) Expenses 243 ($337k) Net assets 109 ($115k)2024 Revenue 347 ($414k) Expenses 273 ($379k) Net assets 142 ($150k)2025 Revenue 260 ($311k) Expenses 272 ($378k) Net assets 78 ($83k)
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Revenue (260)Expenses (272)Net assets (78)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $70k to $256k (+266%).

$105k
$57k
$57k
$28k
$70k
$256k
$115k
$150k
$83k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 64% · 2024 18% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of VetFund Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$48k
’18
$376
’19
−$30k
’20
$42k
’21
$186k
’22
−$141k
’23
$35k
’24
−$67k
’25
2.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Julian Canete

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed19191717
Joined·+1+1+0
No longer listed·130
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $10k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 VetFund Foundation’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

VetFund Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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

100% 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 VetFund Foundation.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

62% of VetFund Foundation'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

VetFund Foundation has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VetFund Foundation: 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 VetFund Foundation?
VetFund Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,126 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VetFund Foundation have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,126 in grants to VetFund Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VetFund Foundation?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VetFund Foundation 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 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