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Es Veterans Association Inc

East Longmeadow, MA · EIN 83-2298124. Reported 43 grants totalling $931,000 to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$931,000granted, 2021-2024
67%of grantees funded again the next year
36%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Es Veterans Association Inc, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 36% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $90,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
27 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Wreaths Across AmericaColumbia Fls, ME$335,000442024
Travis Mills FoundationMount Vernon, ME$110,000442024
United Service Organizations IncArlington, VA$70,000332024
Blue Star Mothers of America IncLaconia, NH$50,000442024
Project New Hope IncWorcester, MA$43,500442024
Galaxy Community CouncilWestover Air Reserve, MA$40,000112022
Connecticut Section Pga Golf Foundation IncGlastonbury, CT$32,500332023
Disabled American Veterans Department of Massachusetts ServicBoston, MA$27,500222024
Marine Corps LeagueManchester, NH$25,000112023
Connecticut Veterans Legal CenterWest Haven, CT$22,500222024
National Guard Association of Connecticut IncHartford, CT$20,000112023
Easter Seals New Hampshire IncManchester, NH$16,500222024
New Hampshire Veterans HomeTilton, NH$16,000112022
Granite United WayManchester, NH$15,000112024
Neny Pga Section Foundation IncClifton Park, NY$15,000112024
Swimming With a Mission IncBedford, NH$12,500112024
Disabled American VeteransErlanger, KY$10,000112022
East Longmeadow Veterans Memorial CommitteeE Longmeadow, MA$10,000112023
Eod Warrior Foundation IncNiceville, FL$10,000112024
Fisher House of Boston IncWalpole, MA$10,000112024
Harbor Homes IncNashua, NH$10,000112024
Homes for Our Troops IncTaunton, MA$10,000112024
Humble Grunt WorkCenter Harbor, NH$10,000112023
John P Connors Memorial FundWestfield, MA$10,000112023

9 of 24 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Public & Societal Benefit
6 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$152,500$15,000
20229$233,500$16,000
202314$295,500$12,750
202415$249,500$12,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

48% of its giving went to organizations in Maine. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Maine
$445K
New Hampshire
$155K
Massachusetts
$151K
Connecticut
$75K
Virginia
$70K
New York
$15K
Kentucky
$10K
Florida
$10K

Down to the city

Columbia Fls, ME
$335K
Mount Vernon, ME
$110K
Arlington, VA
$70K
Manchester, NH
$56K
Laconia, NH
$50K
Worcester, MA
$44K

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maine.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Es Veterans Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 119 Industrial Drive Po Box 736, East Longmeadow, MA, 01028.

EIN 83-2298124 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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