2021 Annual Giving Campaign

During this season of giving, please help us help Veterans in need

Since 1990, The Kaufman Fund's mission to support Veterans and children in the St. Louis region who are at risk of abuse or poverty or are in need of food, shelter, clothing, medical care or other basic needs needs your help. As a 100% volunteer organization with no paid employees, we give away nearly 90% of all revenue generated.

Like many non-profits in 2021, we looked to expand our available resources to meet the demand that the COVID pandemic presented and we found the needs of our Veteran community to be greater. This included adding multiple food giveaway campaigns to help Veterans that were food insecure to help during these challenging times.

Additionally, The Kaufman Fund provides additional services to Veterans directly through our four other Fund Programs - The Dental Referral Network, a Legal Referral Program, a Mental Health Collaborative and a Trees For Vets program that gives Christmas trees and stands to over 300 families each year.

Each in-house program directly tackles the needs of Veterans throughout the St. Louis region and, through partnerships and collaborations, are able to provide services to those in need.

Along with our direct programs The Kaufman Fund has raised and distribute over $1.5 million dollars to help local Veterans and children. Each year a portion of those dollars support our in-house programs, but we also provide grants to area organizations who provide resources to Veterans and Children.

In fact, in 2021, we were able to provide over $100,000 in grants to organizations providing services such as:

• Providing help to homeless Veterans and their families.

• Finding housing for unemployed Veterans.

• Assisting families of deployed Soldiers with emergency funding, clothing, food and shelter.

• Helping veterans with PTSD receive equine and dog assisted therapy.

• Sending care packages to deployed service members.

• Supporting Veterans with transportation for school, doctor appointments, and other transportation needs families with housing, food, and transportation.

• Enabling Veterans to connect to their respective war memorial in Washington D.C. – covering all expenses.

• Donating funds to support scholarships for Veterans children.

• Supporting the Patriot Guard Riders for a fallen service members.

• Providing support to Disabled-low income Veterans that own homes with needed repairs.

We ask you to join us in supporting those who have selflessly served our country as we look to fill the gaps in care and resources they now need.