For Major Donors & Family Offices

One veteran. One direct line. Compound impact.

For family-office directors, principal donors, and individuals considering a \$25,000+ gift to a veteran-serving organization — Wounded Warriors offers a direct relationship with the founder, tax-efficient pathways, and the highest organizational sophistication signal in the US veteran-aid space (the only nonprofit running a 41-tool MCP server). Permanent recognition. Quarterly briefings. Outsized impact.

Why this nonprofit, specifically

Compounding infrastructure

Most veteran nonprofits aggregate gifts and write checks. We do that — five direct-aid programs operate today. But we're also building infrastructure no other US veteran nonprofit has built: 100,000+ verified resources, federal-data overlays, and the only nonprofit Model Context Protocol server in the space. Your gift compounds.

Founder access

Major donors get a direct line to Dillon Parkes (Founder & President). Quarterly briefings. Veto on which federal data overlay we tackle next (HUD AMI? VA SAIL?). Skip the bureaucratic layers that come with larger organizations.

Audit trail

Every claim machine-verifiable in 30 seconds at /api/health-status. Candid 2026 Platinum Seal. Four consecutive Form 990s on ProPublica. Auto-generated quarterly impact reports. Diligence is faster here than at most large foundations.

Tax efficiency

We support every tax-efficient pathway: card / ACH / Apple Pay / DAF grant / appreciated stock (DTC) / cryptocurrency / Qualified Charitable Distribution / corporate matching / bequest / retirement-account beneficiary / life insurance / Charitable Remainder Trust / Charitable Lead Trust. All channels.

Major-gift pathways

\$25,000-\$99,999

Single year or pledge

Permanent recognition on /sponsors page
Eligible to underwrite a specific named program for the year
Quarterly partnership meetings with founder
Co-branded press release option

\$100,000-\$499,999

Single year or multi-year pledge

Anchor recognition on every page footer
Custom partnership: name a program, name a grant cohort, build a co-branded data product
Annual partnership impact film (5-10 min) showing the work funded
Founder + executive briefing call (1×/year)

\$500,000+

Founding-class commitment, typically multi-year

Founding underwriter recognition (5-year permanent)
Influence on which federal data overlay we tackle next
Quarterly direct briefings with founder
First-look on major partnership announcements before press
Optional: dedicated /partners/{your-name} subpage

Bequest / Planned Gift

Estate-attorney coordination

Sample bequest language with our exact EIN + legal name pre-filled
Estate-attorney coordination via founder
Recognition in legacy-society listing
Permanent named-gift designation

The most tax-efficient pathways

Appreciated stock or crypto — avoid capital-gains tax on the appreciation AND deduct fair-market value at transfer. Multiplies effective gift by 20-30% for top-bracket donors. /api/donor/intent?q=stock
Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) — IRA holders age 70½+ can transfer up to \$108,000 (2026) directly from IRA to us. Excluded from gross income. Counts toward RMD. /api/legacy-giving?vehicle=qcd
DAF grant — Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, NPT, Bonterra. Search EIN 86-1336741. We're vetted by all major DAF sponsors.
Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) — for large appreciated assets. Avoid capital-gains tax on transfer, get a partial income-tax deduction, lock in lifetime income.
State-level deductions stacked on federal — combined fed+state savings can reach 50% of the gift in CA, NY, NJ, HI for top-bracket donors. /api/state-tax-credit

How the conversation typically goes

Email dillon@warriorsfund.org directly (founder) or partnerships@warriorsfund.org
30-minute Zoom or in-person meeting (we're in The Woodlands, TX; can travel for major-gift conversations)
Custom proposal in 1 week — your focus area, your proposed structure, our matching commitments
Term sheet → MOU → giving begins
Quarterly impact reports + annual founder check-in

What we say to a major donor when asked "why you instead of a bigger nonprofit?"

The bigger veteran nonprofits are great, and they have the budget to absorb a \$500K gift without changing their trajectory. We're smaller. Your \$500K commitment, deployed alongside our open-data infrastructure and AI agent integration, scales to every veteran in the country. The marginal impact per dollar is dramatically higher here. And — for what it's worth — you can pick up the phone and reach the founder directly. — Dillon Parkes

Email the founder directly → Pitch deck →