California · Nonprofit
Victory Starts Now
Victory Starts Now (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($15). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15
- Net assets
- $0
What Victory Starts Now does
Mission
Victory Starts Nows mission is to combat community deterioration by providing housing, food, supplies, outreach and humanitarian relief to underserved communities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Provided housing, food, mental health and therapeutic services to more than 500 homeless families and justice impacted individuals disorders in the Los Angeles County area.
$17,961,949 spent$23,432,735 earned by the program99% of program spendingProvided life skills and professional development classes for more than 480 low income individuals in the Los Angeles county area.
$105,236 spent$7,980 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,067,185.
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
Viktoriya Stinson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Victory Starts Now’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Victory Starts Now'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15 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.
Against its field
Victory Starts Now receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 599 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Organizations like Victory Starts Now
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Victory Starts Now: 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 Victory Starts Now?
- Victory Starts Now (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($15). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Victory Starts Now have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15 in grants to Victory Starts Now, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Victory Starts Now?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Victory Starts Now 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 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