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Who funds veterans organizations? Grant data from tax filings and live federal listings

Name: veterans grant funding data (Grant Graph)
Creator: Grant Graph
License: public domain sources; compilation freely citable with attribution

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 9,305 grants totaling $362.7 million went to veterans organizations-related work. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of veterans organizations, from their own tax filings

Funder	Grants	Total
ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION	16	$19.3 million
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust	26	$17.8 million
Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United States	185	$17.0 million
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC	4	$14.7 million
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS	115	$14.2 million
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC	351	$12.3 million
Disabled American Veterans National Service Foundation	10	$11.8 million
The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation	4	$11.1 million
T CAUSEMETICS FOUNDATION DBA THRIVE	16	$7.6 million
THE ARTHUR M BLANK FAMILY FOUNDATION	31	$6.2 million

Across all funders: 9,305 grants, $362.7 million total, median grant $5,000.

Where the money went

State	Grants	Total
CA	875	$55.5 million
IL	291	$40.7 million
KY	256	$32.8 million
TX	347	$22.6 million
NY	630	$19.9 million
DC	375	$19.7 million

Open federal opportunities addressing veterans organizations (nonprofit-eligible)

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "veterans"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: veteran, servicemember, military families.

Number	Title	Agency	Award range	Closes
O-BJA-2026-172714	BJA FY 2026 Veterans Treatment Court Program	Bureau of Justice Assistance	up to $2.5 million	10/29/2026
O-BJA-2026-172760	BJA FY 2026 National Center for Veterans Justice	Bureau of Justice Assistance	up to $4.0 million	10/30/2026
HHS-2026-ACL-AOD-DFLA-0025	Expanding Financial Literacy and Empowerment: Increasing Awareness and Use of AB	Administration for Community Living	$1.0 million to $1.2 million	08/03/2026
PDS-UKRAINE-FY26-02	Advancing Sports Diplomacy Through Adaptive Sports	Karyna Fomenko Grantor	$30,000 to $150,000	08/31/2026
USDA-NIFA-ICGP-012261	Outreach and Assistance for Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program	Joseph Perez Lead Policy Analyst	$250,000 to $1.5 million	09/10/2026
VPL-01-23	Announcement of Stand Down Grants		up to $10,000	09/30/2026
L26AS00064	FY26 Bureau of Land Management Youth Conservation Corps - Bureau wide &nbsp	Bureau of Land Management	$30,000 to $220,000	10/16/2026
O-BJA-2026-172775	BJA FY 2026 Tribal Civil and Criminal Legal Assistance	Bureau of Justice Assistance	up to $600,000	11/06/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 46 listings mentioning "veterans organizations" anywhere (retrieved 2026-11-01); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Private-funder figures come from 990 and 990-PF filings as released by the IRS; filings lag reality by one to two years, and organizations below the e-file thresholds are not represented.
A funder appearing here funded this cause historically. It is not a statement that they are accepting applications.
Filings include corrections: voided checks, returned grants and corpus-distribution adjustments appear as negative amounts and are counted as filed. They are a fraction of a percent of the total.
Cause matching is keyword-based against grant purpose text and recipient names; it undercounts grants described in other words.

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.