Florida · Nonprofit
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC (Florida) receives grants from 3989 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,514,787 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,961,269). 2275 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $432M
- Funders on record
- 3,989
- Grants received
- $191M
- Net assets
- $511M
What Wounded Warrior Project Inc does
Mission
Wounded warrior project (wwp) is the nation's leading veterans service organization, focused on the total well-being of post - 9/11 veterans, active-duty service members, and their families. Our programs, advocacy, and awareness efforts help warriors (see schedule o)thrive, provide essential lifelines to families and caregivers, and prevent veteran suicides.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health and wellness programs - wounded warrior project knows that many wounds are unseen and can arise years after service. Wwp helps warriors, their families, and caregivers improve mental and emotional wellness, which enhances their quality of life, increases resilience, and enables them to thrive in their communities. Through wwp's mental health and wellness programs, wwp honors its commitment to this generation of wounded, ill, or injured service members no matter how long or difficult a warrior's road to recovery. Interactive programs, rehabilitative retreats, and professional healthcare services delivered by full-time wwp staff and third-party healthcare providers afford warriors with the tools to develop and maintain healthy, meaningful relationships, set goals for the future, (see schedule o)and build resilience without the barriers or stigmas associated with mental health issues. Total brain health and mental health wellness programs expenses were $98,748,548, including grants of $35,419,052, for the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025. Wwp provides the following mental health and wellness programs:triage: a dedicated team of mental health triage specialists helps…
$98,748,548 spentof which $35,419,052 as grants36% of program spendingIndependence program - wwp's independence program provides long-term support to catastrophically wounded warriors living with injuries such as a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, or neurological conditions that negatively impact their independence. The program is designed to support warriors who, without high- touch services, would struggle to live day-to-day due to the severity of their injuries. Wwp provides specialized case management to increase access to community services, offer rehabilitation through therapy, and empower warriors to live a more independent life. Supplementing va care, services are highly individualized and include in-home care, life skills coaching, traditional therapies (physical, occupational, speech, etc.), and alternative (see schedule o)therapies (art, music, equine, etc.). Because every journey is different, wwp works as a team with warriors, their family members, and their caregivers to set individualized goals to live a fulfilling life, at home, with their loved ones. As of september 30, 2025, there were 971 warriors receiving services through the independence program at an average annual cost per warrior for contracted…
$47,390,694 spent17% of program spendingAlumni connection programs - warriors form strong bonds in the military. After service, wounded warriors frequently experience isolation and mental health challenges, often lacking the support networks needed to help them thrive. Wwp offers a wide variety of opportunities for wounded warriors, their families, and caregivers to socially connect, build camaraderie, and heal. Through educational, recreational, and family-oriented activities, warriors gain a renewed sense of connection with their peers, cohesion, and purpose. These opportunities introduce veterans to new experiences, and to the care and support they need throughout their journeys of recovery and rehabilitation. Wwp had 242,500 warriors and 58,848 family members registered as of september 30, 2025. (see schedule o)total connection programs expenses were $42,763,171, including grants of $1,500,000, for the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025. Wwp provides the following connection programs:registration: the registration team is where warriors and family members begin their journey with wwp. This team confirms the eligibility of warriors and family members. Registration is available via phone, online, or in person. An…
$42,763,171 spentof which $1,500,000 as grants16% of program spendingFinancial wellness programs - an important component of successful transition to civilian life for wounded service members is the opportunity to pursue a meaningful career, achieve financial stability, and provide for their family. Total financial wellness programs expenses were $38,821,354, including grants of $3,689,987, for the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025. Wwp provides the following financial wellness programs:benefits services: wwp's benefits services team advocates for injured veterans and their family members to obtain their well- earned va government benefits. Wwp's va-certified team of representatives provides warriors and family members with the support and qualified help needed to navigate the va benefits claims process. The benefits team helps warriors and their families to understand their options, receive their benefits, and remain focused on their recoveries. In fiscal year 2025, issues awarded on behalf of warriors through benefits service resulted in an economic impact of $263.7 million.warriors to work: wwp's warriors to work program provides warriors and their family members with the resources and assistance they require to be successful in the civilian…
$85,746,562 spentof which $14,980,650 as grants31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,648,975.
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 2023 to 2024, from $448M to $527M (+18%).
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.
92% of WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Walter E Piatt
Chief executive officer(as of 03/24)
Board chair
Ken Hunzeker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 854 funders to 1429 funders, grant income rose $8.1M → $24M.
191 of 3989 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $12k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 3989 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
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
68% 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 WARRIOR PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 8% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 43% · 2023 18% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC'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
59% of WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC'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. Of the $77M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 50 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112M arriving through sponsors registered in 40 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 WARRIOR PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $45k
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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Wwp Long Term Support Trust · exempt
- Charitable Lead Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: 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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC?
- WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC (Florida) receives grants from 3989 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,514,787 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($22,961,269). 2275 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3989 organizations giving $190,514,787 in grants to WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC, 2275 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,961,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3989 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