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Highest tier offered by Candid (formerly GuideStar). Recognizes financial transparency, governance disclosure, mission clarity, impact reporting, and constituent voice. Approximately 10% of US 501(c)(3)s have any Candid seal. Far fewer reach Platinum.
Verify: search "Wounded Warriors" or EIN 86-1336741 at candid.org
Independent rating organization assessing financial health, accountability, transparency, leadership, and impact reporting.
Verify: search "Wounded Warriors EIN 86-1336741" at charitynavigator.org
Recognized by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. The IRS ruling was issued in 2021, the year of our founding.
Verify: apps.irs.gov/app/eos · search EIN 86-1336741
Four consecutive years of public Form 990 filings, available for independent diligence on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. Filings include financial details, governance disclosures, executive compensation, and program breakouts.
Verify: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/861336741
Wounded Warriors became the first US veteran-serving 501(c)(3) to operate a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 41 specialized tools — making verified veteran-aid data directly accessible to AI assistants like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT.
Verify: /api/discovery · 41 tools listed at /.well-known/agent-card.json
100,352 of 100,437 veteran-aid resources in our directory are geocoded to FIPS Census tract level — neighborhood-grain precision, accurate to ~4,000-person resolution. No other US veteran-serving organization has reached this resolution at this scale.
Verify: /api/health-status shows live FIPS coverage statistics.
Four datasets totaling approximately 265,000 records published under CC-BY 4.0: 100,437 verified veteran resources, 84,365 ACS demographic tracts, 78,815 CDC PLACES health-prevalence tracts, 80,147 ACS housing-burden tracts. All FIPS-tract keyed, machine-queryable, indexed in Google Dataset Search via Schema.org markup, and harvestable by federal Data.gov via Project Open Data v1.1 catalog.
Verify: /data · /data.json
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