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Recognition for the work — independently verified.

Every award and recognition listed here is independently verifiable. Foundation officers and major donors can confirm any of these in 30 seconds.

Independent watchdog ratings

2026

Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency

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

2026

Charity Navigator Rated Nonprofit

Independent rating organization assessing financial health, accountability, transparency, leadership, and impact reporting.

Verify: search "Wounded Warriors EIN 86-1336741" at charitynavigator.org

Federal recognitions

2021 (ruling year)

IRS 501(c)(3) Public Charity Ruling

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

Technology firsts

April 2026

Among the First US Veteran Nonprofits to Operate a 43-Tool Model Context Protocol Server

Wounded Warriors operates a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 43 specialized tools — making veteran-aid data directly accessible to AI assistants like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT.

Verify: /api/discovery · 43 tools listed at /.well-known/agent-card.json

April 2026

An Open Veteran-Data Layer

Four datasets totaling approximately 265,000 records published under CC-BY 4.0: 144,900+ 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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