Vermont · Nonprofit
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,350 to it, the largest being CHINO CIENEGA FOUNDATION ($425,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $512k
- Net assets
- $49k
What War Legacies Project Inc does
Mission
WLP provides direct humanitarian assistance in the form of medical care, educational support, and income generation to families heavily impacted by the long-term health and environmental consequences of the war in Southeast Asia. We educate Americans and others about the impacts of war and provide information to US Veterans and their families and the general public about Agent Orange/Dioxin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
WLP has supported a non-formal education program in Nong District, Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR. It trained 16 teachers in 8 villages in Nong to teach Lao language reading and writing and Math skills to youth and young adults that did not attend school or dropped out of school before they obtained literacy in the Lao Language. The Nong Non-Formal Education Project had 145 students complete the 6 month course that brought them to the equivalent of grade 2 in the Lao education system.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Support to People with Disabilities in Laos: The project identifies and provides health care and educational support to children and youths with disabilities along the former Ho Chi Minh Trail area of Laos. The project surveyed 126 villages in 5 districts of Salavan and Savannakhet provinces of Laos along the former Ho Chi Minh Trail area. It raised awareness in villages and district government offices about the potential health and environmental impacts of use of dioxin contaminated herbicides during the American war in Laos and the types of birth defects and disabilities the project could help address. Over 500 children and adults under the age of 55 with congenital malformations and birth defects were identified.The projects assisted seven children from rural Savannkhet and Salavan province to travel to Vientiane for Medical care and a young child from rural Xieng Khoang to travel to Vientiane for Chemotherapy.
$41,285 spentof which $11,272 as grants25% of program spendingHumanitarian Assistance Program for People with Disabilities: The program focuses on poor families in Vietnam with one or more children with severe and/or multiple disabilities. In partnership with the Quang Nam Red Cross the program provided direct assistance to 31 families that included 36 children/youths with disabilities in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. This included assisting with livelihood support, improving housing conditions, supporting the costs of medical care and/or adaptive equipment, or supporting educational expenses. A grant to the Fund for Genetic Counseling and Disabled children in supported the physical therapy of dozens of children and the operating costs for an early intervention center in Nam Dong District, Thua Thien Hue province Vietnam that provides rehabilitation, basic education and self-care skills for 7 severely disabled children. The project also supported the school fees for young girl who was born without limbs, so that she could attend the 11th grade, a scholarship for a university student who lost her father to cancer and supported a young man with disabilities buy providing funds for his internet connection. The project also supported 16 women…
$66,451 spentof which $57,984 as grants40% of program spendingAgent Orange Education Project: Provides information to veterans and their families, non-profits, students, journalists, film-makers and the general public about the impacts of Agent Orange/Dioxin, Unexploded ordnance and other war legacies on human health and the environment. Manages an informational website about Agent Orange/Dioxin (http://www.agentorangerecord.com). Staff participate in conferences and educational events as well as write articles and research papers.
$40,833 spentof which $500 as grants24% of program spendingWLP has supported a non-formal education program in Nong District, Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR. It trained 16 teachers in 8 villages in Nong to teach Lao language reading and writing and Math skills to youth and young adults that did not attend school or dropped out of school before they obtained literacy in the Lao Language. The Nong Non-Formal Education Project had 145 students complete the 6 month course that brought them to the equivalent of grade 2 in the Lao education system.
$19,119 spentof which $15,186 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $167,688.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $33k to $177k (+437%).
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 WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Susan Hammond
Executive Director/Board Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $55k.
3 of 7 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 WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC’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
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 74% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“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
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC
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In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC?
- WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,350 to it, the largest being CHINO CIENEGA FOUNDATION ($425,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $512,350 in grants to WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC?
- CHINO CIENEGA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 7 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