Maryland · Nonprofit
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,073,113 to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($1,750,000). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 137
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Warrior Canine Connection Inc does
Mission
Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Dog training and placement: the warrior canine connection therapeutic service dog training program works with golden and labrador retriever puppies, purpose bred for health and temperament for service dog work. Recovering warriors from nicoe and wrnmmc, ft. Belvoir and civilian volunteers were involved in the early socialization of these future service dogs for disabled warriors in the medical facilities and at the warrior canine connection boyds, md hq. Warrior canine connection puppies were featured on a puppy cam that was viewed by millions of people around the world, providing the warrior canine connection with an outstanding educational opportunity to share information about the breeding, care, therapeutic training, and benefits of service dogs to wounded warriors. A wcc dog must be approximately two years old and meet industry training standards to be eligible to be placed with a warrior. The september 20, 2025 graduation celebrated the placement of 11 service dogs, 6 military family support dogs, 5 facility dogs in support of veterans with disabilities and their families.
$2,873,308 spent69% of program spendingMission based trauma recovery: during fye 06/30/2025 & 06/30/2024, warrior canine connection provided its therapeutic service dog training program for post-traumatic stress (pts) and traumatic brain injuries (tbi) to wounded warriors in the following locations: maryland - wcc's healing quarters in boyds; the baltimore veterans treatment court in baltimore; the platoon veteran services center at goodwill in frederick; the silver spring vet center in silver spring, the jessup correctional center in jessup. California - the department of veterans affairs health care system palo alto (paws act site), menlo park and san francisco; san mateo veterans treatment court; and san francisco veterans justice court. North carolina -charles george va mental health care center (paws act site); at the buncombe county veterans treatment court. Pennsylvania - philadelphia va medical center, philadelphia; university of pennsylvania; southwest vet center, pittsburgh; and duquesne university, pittsburgh; virginia - fort belvoir and the prince william county veterans treatment court. Additionally, warrior canine connection dogs worked with soldiers in the warrior transition units at wrnmmc, fort…
$965,412 spent23% of program spendingWarrior canine connection provides mbtr services as a sub-contractor, converting to the prime contractor mid-year. Per the terms of the contract, services and dogs are provided at the national intrepid center of excellence (nicoe), at walter reed national military medical center (wrnmmc) in bethesda. The revenue and expenditures were included in the mission based trauma recovery program in prior years. As this program continues to grow and expand, the activity is separated to be recognized as an independent program.
$336,384 spent$336,384 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,175,104.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $9.5M to $14M (+47%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 19% · 2022 7% · 2023 26% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Rick Yount
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 66 funders, grant income rose $286k → $1.5M.
23 of 137 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 137 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
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
50% 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 WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 40% · 2019 16% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 33% · 2023 13% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record — $2.8M federal, $280k state.
- Department of Defense$2.8M
- Grant$280k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC?
- WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,073,113 to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($1,750,000). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC have?
- IRS filings report 137 organizations giving $9,073,113 in grants to WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC?
- The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 137 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing