California · Nonprofit
VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ
VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,132 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($81,833). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $128k
- Net assets
- $113k
What Vets 4 Vets Santa Cruz does
Mission
Provide emotional and financial support to veterans in Santa Cruz County by organizing activities providing community-building opportunities and emergency financial assistance
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide financial assistance to local veterans to overcome temporary financial crises encourage education advancement express appreciation for their service and sacrifice and increase resilience Funds can cover emergency short-term housing transportation food clothing car repair This program serves over 60 veterans and families this year
Host events and projects to encourage community positive communications and provide opportunities to engage with fellow vets and the general community to improve understanding and dispel misconceptions about veterans and the challenges they face
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $146k to $115k (−21%).
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 VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Wendy Core
Exec Director
Board chair
Mike Lovejoy
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $20k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
69% of VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ: 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 VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ?
- VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,132 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($81,833). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $128,132 in grants to VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $81,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETS 4 VETS SANTA CRUZ 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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