North Carolina · Nonprofit
VETS TO DRONES 501C3
VETS TO DRONES 501C3 (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,590 to it, the largest being UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION ($1,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $405
What Vets to Drones 501c3 does
Mission
To train veterans to fly drones
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Vets to drones apprenticeship program (vdap) is a 3 phase program whereby we train candidates with little to no drone experience to fly real-world missions in the mountains of nc.
$146,889 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,889.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of VETS TO DRONES 501C3’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
VETS TO DRONES 501C3 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
“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
VETS TO DRONES 501C3 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
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
VETS TO DRONES 501C3 receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,854 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like VETS TO DRONES 501C3
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETS TO DRONES 501C3: 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 TO DRONES 501C3?
- VETS TO DRONES 501C3 (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,590 to it, the largest being UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION ($1,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETS TO DRONES 501C3 have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,590 in grants to VETS TO DRONES 501C3, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETS TO DRONES 501C3?
- UNITED COMMUNITY BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETS TO DRONES 501C3 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2 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