Impact Report
Inspiring veterans to build the foundation of success — and empowering them to become the backbone of society after the uniform.
A Word From the Founder
2025 Was the Year the Line Moved.
When I started ATLVets, I wasn't trying to build another veteran charity. I was trying to build the development system the military forgot to create for the day after you take the uniform off — the one I went looking for, and couldn't find.
2025 was the year that vision stopped being a promise and became an institution. We brought more than 16,000 veterans, family members, and supporters into our rooms — at workshops, summits, speaker events, and sessions across the country. We placed our first veteran into ownership of a multimillion-dollar company. We launched our mobile platform, putting the full Leadership Institute in the pocket of every veteran with a phone, including the rural veteran a hundred miles from the nearest resource.
We also did the unglamorous work that real institutions require: we built a board with teeth, formalized our governance, stood up a development engine, and started laying the groundwork for a permanent home — a Center of Excellence that will outlast all of us.
Twenty-two veterans a day still take their own lives. That number does not move because of awareness. It moves when organizations grow fast enough, fund well enough, and lead well enough to meet the scale of the problem. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
This report is the account of what your belief made possible in 2025 — and an invitation to what comes next. The line is moving. Help us keep advancing it.
The Year in Numbers
A Year of Scale and Standard.
Figures reflect total 2025 engagement across all ATLVets programs, events, and community activity. Financial figures are drawn from ATLVets' 2025 fiscal year (Jan 1–Dec 31, 2025). "89% of every dollar raised" reflects program expenditures measured against total funds raised in 2025.
Who We Are
Built for the Veteran Who Led at the Highest Level.
ATLVets is a 501(c)(3) veteran leadership development organization — designed by a veteran, for veterans. We are purpose-built for the mid-management and executive-level veteran: the one who wore rank, led teams, and executed complex operations, and is now navigating a civilian landscape that routinely underestimates them.
We are not a food pantry. We do not process benefits claims. We build leaders. Where most transition resources are designed for the 22-year-old leaving a four-year enlistment, ATLVets serves the veteran who gave 15 years or more — and still has decades of high-performance leadership left to give.
To empower veterans, first responders, and their families to achieve professional success, build businesses, develop whole-person resilience, and advance the line — in their careers, their communities, and their lives.
The Operating Architecture
Built on Five Pillars
Every program, cohort, and event maps back to one or more of these five foundational pillars — the framework for whole-person development.
Twenty-two veterans die by suicide every day. They don't die because they're weak — they die because the military gave them a mission, a team, and a standard, and nobody built the system for the day all of that stops. ATLVets exists because a DD-214 and a handshake are not good enough.
The Leadership Institute
Six Programs. One Standard.
In 2025, all ATLVets programming consolidated under the ATLVets Leadership Institute — a single, scalable identity that delivers a consistent experience whether a veteran engages in Atlanta, Tampa, Dallas, or remotely by phone. Every program is built on one principle: give veterans the operating system to lead at the executive level — in business, at home, and in community.
Senior Leader Track
Our most senior tier — a cohort-based ownership-readiness program for founders scaling companies and veterans pursuing business acquisition through Patriot Growth Capital. This is where leadership experience becomes equity.
VetOPS
Veterans Optimizing Professional Success — the flagship career-acceleration program for mid-management and executive veterans. Individualized roadmaps and direct employer connections. Built for veterans done competing for entry-level roles.
Beyond The Uniform
A dedicated cohort for women veterans building leadership, community, and career momentum — purpose-built, not a modified men's program. For the woman who refuses to be invisible, underpaid, or underestimated. Under licensed clinical oversight.
Heroic Forge
A structured, accountability-driven cohort for male veterans — not a support group. Faith-integrated growth, brotherhood, and the deliberate work of rebuilding identity, discipline, and purpose. Tackles moral injury head-on, under licensed clinical oversight.
Resilience & Reflection
A chaplain-model spiritual resilience program — inclusive of all faiths, modeled on the military chaplaincy. Healing, reflection, and reconnection for veterans carrying the moral and emotional weight of service. Voluntary and never conditioned on belief.
AMP — Advanced Manufacturing
A sector-specific pathway connecting high-performing veterans with manufacturing employers who value military operational discipline. Blended, modular delivery structured as an operational system — not a traditional training class.
From Workforce Readiness to Wealth Creation
We Don't Just Train Veterans. We Make Owners.
The defining difference of the ATLVets model is what happens at the top of the pipeline. Through our partnership with Patriot Growth Capital (PGC), we don't just prepare veterans for jobs — we place them into ownership of established, revenue-generating businesses.
This is the difference between workforce readiness and genuine economic mobility — one of the most powerful and underfunded gaps in the entire veteran-services ecosystem. ATLVets is closing it.
On October 28, 2025, the City of Roswell signed a Letter of Intent with Patriot Growth Capital and ATLVets to explore a veteran-led innovation accelerator — a hub for veteran leadership, defense technology, cybersecurity, and healthcare innovation. It builds directly toward the shared vision of a Veteran Center of Excellence.
The partnership also returns a recurring revenue share to ATLVets each quarter — a sustainable, earned-income engine that grows with the work, reinvesting the success of veteran ownership directly back into the mission.
2025 In Action
The Line Moving, Quarter by Quarter.
From intimate retreats to thousand-person events with four-star generals, 2025 was a year of consistent, visible momentum across our markets and our community.
Stewardship
Where Every Dollar Goes.
We hold ourselves to the same standard we ask of the veterans we serve: discipline, accountability, and results. In 2025, 89 cents of every dollar raised went directly to programs that develop veterans.
Total funds raised grew significantly year over year as ATLVets transitioned from episodic, event-driven fundraising toward a systematic, pipeline-managed development operation — supported by a restructured board, a dedicated Development Committee, and a CRM-based donor engine built in 2025.
Institutional Validation
2025 Grant Funders
ATLVets secured grant support in 2025 from institutional funders whose confidence reflects the rigor of our model and the credibility of our leadership:
Our men's and women's cohorts operate under licensed clinical oversight, qualifying them for behavioral-wellness funding streams. Paired with a private-equity placement partnership, a national career board, and a mobile-first rural-access platform, ATLVets offers layers of fundability most veteran nonprofits cannot touch.
Financial figures reflect ATLVets' 2025 fiscal year. "89 cents of every dollar raised" reflects 2025 program expenditures measured against total funds raised in the same period. Grant funders listed reflect 2025 institutional support; amounts not disclosed.
The Ecosystem
We Don't Do This Alone.
ATLVets is a node in a deliberately built veteran ecosystem. Our partners, supporters, and collaborators expand the entire sector's impact — not just our own metrics. This is the difference between a program and a movement.
Corporate & Institutional
- Patriot Growth Capital — placement partner
- Goldman Sachs — grant funder
- CLA — grant funder
- Natson Hotel Group — Soiree host partner
- Invited Clubs — speaker series
- UPS — corporate partner & venue
- Daniel Defense — corporate partner
- BENS Southeast — executive network
- Comcast Military — supporter
Community & Mission
- VETLANTA — co-venture & summits
- Merging Vets & Players
- Grey Bull Rescue — operational partner
- Shepherd Center — wellness partner
- Georgia Tech VET2 — academic
- Georgia Dept. of Veterans Service
- CareerServe / Brandywine Cares
- Metro Atlanta Chamber
- VFW Atlanta · Vets 2 Industry
On Our Stage in 2025
Featured Leaders & Speakers
From four-star generals to bestselling authors, ATLVets curates conversations that matter: Gen. David Petraeus (USA, Ret.), Adm. James Stavridis (USN, Ret.), Jack Carr (Navy SEAL / author), Michael J. Coles (founder, Great American Cookie Co.), MG Bill Gayler (USA, Ret.), Ryan Hendrickson (Special Forces, Purple Heart), and Lindsey Streeter (Bank of America) — among many others across Atlanta and Tampa.
What Comes Next
The Mission Deserves a Permanent Home.
In the military, there is always another schoolhouse — boot camp, AIT, Ranger School, War College. The institution always exists. ATLVets is building the civilian equivalent: a permanent Center of Excellence that houses every Leadership Institute program under one roof, generates earned revenue, and makes this mission institutional rather than organizational.
The building is the commitment made concrete. In 2026, we open the campaign to bring it to life — and we are inviting the partners who believe in what veterans become next to build it with us.
