California · Nonprofit
WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY
WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $833,049 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($256,669). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $345k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $833k
- Net assets
- $264k
What Wounded Heroes Fund Kern County does
Mission
The organization provides financial assistance and moral support to active, discharged and retired military service men and women, with emphasis on those injured in the iraq and afganistan conflicts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mission programs: hosts programs designed for veterans and for their families. The programs are disgned to carry out the organization's mission by assisting veterans with the transition to civilian life. The current progams offered are: date nights, family building, equine therapy, couple retreats, and outdoor retreats.
$285,974 spent100% of program spendingVeteran grants: the grant program is designed to be robust and meet the varying needs of our wounded and returning veterans. The grants may be used for paying bills, attending school, purchasing school books, or paying medical bills.
Outreach programs: wounded heroes fund (whf) attends various events in the community throughout the year to gain the attention of the local service members. By participating in local events whf can bring awareness to the veteran community of the ogranization's services.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,974.
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 2019 to 2020, from $590k to $737k (+25%).
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 2% · 2021 31% · 2022 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $37k → $155k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY’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
WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 37% · 2019 41% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 41% · 2023 45% — 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
46% of WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY?
- WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $833,049 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($256,669). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $833,049 in grants to WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $256,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOUNDED HEROES FUND KERN COUNTY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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