Nebraska · Nonprofit
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,099,522 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,904,283). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 180
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to support the veterans and families of those who have been wounded, injured, or killed during combat operations.wounded warriors family support is committed to supporting and assisting military families affected by the sacrifices made during combat operations. Our organization recognizes that the families of our brave service members are often overlooked when it comes to receiving help and support.in addition to directly aiding military families, wounded warriors family support also plays a crucial role in providing funding to other veteran organizations with similar missions. We believe in the power of collaboration with other reputable organizations, uniting our efforts to serve better those who have served our country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mobility is freedom program aims to enhance the quality of life for wounded veterans missing limbs by providing vehicle grants and modifications that allow them to live free and independently. Many veterans lose their driving independence due to the high cost of the vehicle and the modifications necessary to drive. This program works with severely injured combat veterans. This includes those who have suffered amputations, spinal cord injuries, and severe burns.in addition to supporting wounded veterans, the program also aims to raise awareness about their sacrifices and struggles. Wounded warriors family support provided 17 grants to qualified wounded veterans in 2025.
$510,000 spentof which $510,000 as grants12% of program spendingWounded warriors family support's veteran and caregiver respite program provides respite and supplemental services nationwide to veterans, caregivers, and families of wounded war veterans. Our program aims to ensure that family members thrust into the role of caregivers are provided with the support they need to keep their families intact while keeping themselves healthy. Wounded warriors family support respite services include secondary caregiver assistance, respite aid for remote areas, and short-term temporary relief in the form of in-home services, light housekeeping, medical travel, and grocery assistance. The program also provides assistance in enrolling in the department of veterans affairs caregiver support services and other resources.
$1,734,301 spentof which $1,127,794 as grants41% of program spendingThe organization has entered a project development agreement with the dunham house for the purpose of constructing a first-of-its-kind, transformational initiative for combat-wounded veterans in need of long-term residential-centered care for their wounds. The dunham house model puts the focus on each veteran's needs to ensure treatment, socialization, and independence. The facility will sit on an 8.5-acre parcel within a scenic and pastoral 40-acre site in north omaha, nebraska, and allows for multi-phase construction. The complex will include housing and amenities to accommodate 30 veterans in a neighborhood residence totaling approximately 27,000 square feet. The dunham house is a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
$1,350,000 spentof which $1,350,000 as grants32% of program spendingWounded warriors family support provides vacation retreats to wounded veterans and their families. The family retreats allow wounded veterans to heal and reconnect with their loved ones in a peaceful, non-stress environment.our family retreats give wounded veterans and their families a break from the pressures of everyday life to take time to become stronger as individuals and families. Wounded veterans are given the opportunity to decompress and share in positive experiences with their spouses and children, strengthening the bonds of their families and making lasting memories. Wwfs provides a travel grant and a stipend for lodging. The retreats program includes universal resorts orlando & staycations.
$197,445 spentof which $197,445 as grants5% of program spendingUnited automobile workers ford (uaw-ford) is dedicated to showing appreciation and support to our country's military veterans and their families. Our nation's military veterans have fulfilled greatcommitments in protecting our country's freedom.uaw-ford and wounded warriors family support have partnered to provide a training program in welding for u.s. Military veterans. Uaw-ford is offering a six-week welding training program, where selected veterans will train and test for 6g through 4f welding certification. In 2025wounded warriors family support provided two classes with 18 veterans completing the course. Wwfs provides boots, lodging, transportation, and food stipends.soldier support is to provide veterans and their families unmet needs by direct support for emergency funding, travel grants, back to school grants, educational grants, and natural disaster assistance. Additional support was provided in 2024 to dunham house to provide housing for combat wounded veterans.
$443,062 spentof which $111,000 as grants10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,234,808.
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 $6.1M to $9.3M (+52%).
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 3% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
109% of WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT 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 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
Kathryn Mccauley
CEO & president
Board chair
Lt Gen John B Sylvester Ret
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 77 funders, grant income rose $603k → $1.5M.
41 of 180 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 180 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 WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
80% 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 WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 18% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 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
45% of WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
74% of WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT 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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 37 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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 WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT 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 WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC?
- WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,099,522 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,904,283). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 180 organizations giving $11,099,522 in grants to WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC, 111 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,904,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 180 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