We help veteran-owned businesses get certified, get ready, and win federal work — with coaching, community, and grants funded by people who believe the next mission is ownership.
Formation status, stated plainly: the Foundation's incorporation & 501(c)(3) packet is drafted — not yet filed, awaiting attorney/CPA review. No donations are being accepted. Programs for veterans run today through FedM8 LLC's Veterans Only Invitation.
Every year, veteran-owned businesses leave federal contracts on the table — not for lack of ability, but because certification is a paperwork wall, the bidding process is a maze, and nobody shows them the teaming routes. The FedM8 Veterans Foundation exists to tear down all three.
The funding built for this mission — SBA veterans' business outreach and training grants, foundation awards, corporate veteran initiatives — is legally restricted to nonprofits, colleges, and government agencies. A for-profit platform can't receive it. The Foundation is the vehicle that makes this mission fundable, on the record and under audit.
FedM8 LLC owns the platform and sells memberships. The Foundation — a separate Virginia nonprofit corporation with its own board, bank account, and books — raises donations and grants and buys defined services from the LLC at a fair, documented price under a written services agreement. Nothing informal, nothing off the books, no shared wallets.
The Foundation's help is awarded, not discounted. Two grants carry a veteran from first certification to first contract — each an award with a stated value, paid by the Foundation, never billed to the veteran.
For veterans getting certified. Verify your service with VerifyPass, apply, and if awarded, the Foundation funds one year of guided certification help on FedM8: SAM.gov registration and the VetCert path, step by step.
For certified firms ready to win work. With an active SAM.gov registration — UEI and CAGE code in hand — apply for one year of FedM8 Pro, awarded by the Foundation at the full Pro rate.
Prove your service with VerifyPass.
Apply for the Certification Grant.
Guided help through the VetCert path.
UEI and CAGE code in hand.
Apply for the Contracts Grant.
One year of FedM8 Pro, awarded by the Foundation.
The Foundation is in formation. Grant applications open once the Foundation is stood up. Join the founding-interest list to be first to know.
SAM.gov registration, SDVOSB / VetCert, HUBZone & 8(a) guidance — step by step, with a coach beside you instead of a PDF in front of you.
Contract matching, plain-language briefs, and bid readiness — so a certified business becomes a winning one.
Primes looking for subcontractors, 1099 pathways, and teaming partners — a first-class route to revenue while you build toward primes of your own.
A private community where veteran founders talk contracts, wins, setbacks, and real life — the floor is full of people already doing the work.
Guided, coach-backed help through SAM.gov and SBA VetCert (SDVOSB/VOSB) — eligibility checks, document prep, and someone to call when the portal says no for the third time.
Grant-Funded Contract Coaching for Veterans: reading a solicitation, pricing the work, teaming smart, and staying compliant after the win. Delivered live through the FedM8 platform.
Two grants awarded by the Foundation — certification help and a year of FedM8 Pro — paid by the Foundation at a stated value, never billed to the veteran. How the grants work
Matching veteran subs with primes who need them, with the paperwork and reporting discipline (including subcontractor reporting) that keeps both sides clean.
A grant runs one year from its award date. When it ends, the member chooses what comes next: a further grant by application, or a regular membership. During a grant year the member is never billed. See the grants
The Foundation is governed by five directors: two founders from FedM8 LLC and three independent directors with no financial interest in the LLC. On any money moving between the Foundation and the LLC, the founders recuse — and until the first independent director is seated, no intercompany payment beyond a de-minimis amount and no grant funds move at all. That gate is written into the bylaws, not just promised here.
We're recruiting independent directors now — veteran business owners preferred, under the Foundation's veteran-majority design. Directors are unpaid; what the role offers instead is protection, training, recognition, network, and a governing voice over real grant money.
Read the Director FAQ: how many seats there are, whether you have to be a veteran, what directors get (the legitimate positives — including D&O protection, training, and arm's-length business done right), what they owe, and how independence actually works.
The FedM8 Veterans Foundation's formation packet — articles of incorporation, bylaws, and conflict-of-interest policy — is fully drafted. The name is set (FedM8 Veterans Foundation), the registered agent is set (Arlington, Virginia), and the board has chosen the full IRS Form 1023 over the short form, because this mission intends to compete for real grant funding.
Nothing has been filed yet. The packet goes to an outside attorney/CPA for review first (that's deliberate — the reviewer confirms the tax category, the grant-pricing basis, and the filing sequence), then incorporation, EIN, and the 1023 follow in order. Virginia charitable-solicitation registration happens before any donation is ever solicited.
Until then: this site accepts no donations and makes no tax-deductibility claims, because it can't — honestly. Veterans are being served today through FedM8 LLC's Veterans Only Invitation, and every pre-formation cost for the veteran program is being logged for the board and reviewer to rule on after incorporation.
Founding support — funding grants and coaching, backing the first grant cycle — opens the day incorporation completes and the Foundation can lawfully receive it. Interest registration will open on this page at that moment. If you're a veteran, you don't need to wait for any of that: the programs are already running.