When a veteran calls at 2 a.m., your gift is what shows up.
A hot meal. A ride to safety. A bed instead of the street — and a fellow veteran who stays on the line. Give money, or give something bigger: a home, a building, or land that becomes a place where combat veterans recover.
What we're building: one tap between a veteran and help
We're building the SUAS QRF app — a crisis-response app that puts the whole response on one screen. A veteran in trouble doesn't fill out a form or sit on hold. They answer one question — “What do you need?” — and tap. Behind that tap, a peer responder gets moving with a ride, a meal, or a safe bed.
Free Ride
A crisis ride to safety, coordinated the moment it's tapped — a connection to a fellow veteran, not a stranger and a fare.
Free Food
A hot meal brought to the veteran — comfort in their hands, not a voucher and a bus ride across town.
Emergency Shelter
A safe bed for the night, no payment needed — and a peer who checks in the next morning.
Your gift builds it — and funds what's behind it. Donations pay for the app's development and for the field operations every tap will set in motion: the $35 ride, the $25 meal, the $150 bed. The app is being built now, not finished.
Resilience, trust, perseverance
The Raider Bell hangs as a memorial to Marines and Sailors — and to what carries people through the worst nights of their lives: resilience, trust, and perseverance. Those aren't words on a plaque to us. They're the job description.
SUAS QRF is veteran-led. When a veteran in crisis reaches out, the person who answers has stood where they're standing — and stays: through the ride, the meal, the first night off the street, and the weeks of waiting until real treatment opens up. Nobody gets handed off. Nobody gets left.
Semper Fidelis — always faithful. Spiritus Invictus — unconquered spirit. That's the standard your gift is held to.
What comfort actually means
Comfort sounds small until you're the one out there at 2 a.m. Then it has a shape: a hot meal in your hands, a safe bed instead of concrete, a ride that comes when it's promised — and a voice on the line that doesn't hang up.
Every candle in this picture was lit by somebody who refused to forget. That's what a gift here is: a refusal to forget the veteran still waiting — for a bed, for a ride, for one person to show up. Your giving is how the showing up happens.
Give money — tonight, or every month
Pick an amount and how often. Every tier is a real thing a veteran gets: a meal, a safe bed, or the whole bundle.
Donations are processed securely by GoFundMe and PayPal Giving Fund. We never store your card details.
Amounts reflect SUAS QRF's own per-unit service costs. Larger gifts — and gifts of property — stretch across many nights and many veterans.
Join the neighbors, veterans, and local businesses already giving on GoFundMe.
Tax-deductible · 501(c)(3) nonprofit · EIN 88-3249428 · IRS determination letter (PDF)
Does your employer match charitable gifts? Find SUAS QRF (EIN 88-3249428) in your workplace giving portal — many employers double your donation.
Giving property, a vehicle, or goods instead — or want to talk first? Use the donation form below. It starts a conversation, no obligation.
Every kind of gift becomes comfort
Money keeps the response running tonight. Property builds the place veterans recover tomorrow. Vehicles and goods put both within reach. One form below starts any of them.
Money
One-time or monthly, on GoFundMe or through the PayPal Giving Fund. Even $35 moves a veteran off the street and into a car with a peer responder beside them.
Recovery housing
A home, building, or land. Donated property becomes recovery housing for combat veterans — sober living, group rehab for CPTSD/PTSD, or a quiet place to decompress. It's the largest gift a supporter can make, and it keeps giving for decades.
Vehicles & goods
A running car or truck becomes a crisis-response vehicle. Furniture, appliances, and equipment outfit the homes veterans recover in. If it can help a veteran, ask us before you sell or scrap it.
Your donated home or land becomes a place where combat veterans recover.
A crisis ride ends the emergency. Recovery housing ends the cycle. When you donate a house, a building, or a piece of land to SUAS QRF, it doesn't sit in a portfolio — it becomes a home where veterans heal, run by people who have worn the uniform themselves.
Here's the gap a donated home fills first: getting into rehab at the Palo Alto VA can take two to six weeks — and a veteran who has finally said “yes, I'll go” can't spend those weeks on the street and still make it. A donated home is the landing pad: a safe, sober bed where they wait with peers watching out for them, until the VA bed opens and we get them through that door.
Inheriting a house you can't keep? Holding land with no plan for it? Downsizing, settling an estate, or holding a building that's more burden than asset? A property gift can turn that weight into the place a veteran finally gets to breathe.
Sober Living Environments
Donated homes become SLEs — stable, substance-free houses where veterans in recovery live alongside peers who hold each other accountable, with structure, house rules, and a roof that doesn't disappear mid-recovery.
Group Rehab for CPTSD / PTSD
Residential space for small-group recovery work — room for combat veterans to do the hard work of healing together, guided by peers and connected to clinical care, away from the environments that keep wounds open.
Decompression Space
Not every veteran needs a program — some need quiet before crisis hits. A donated home or rural parcel becomes a safe place to land, breathe, and reset: a porch, a bed, and nobody asking anything of them for a while.
The Landing — Until a VA Bed Opens
It can take two to six weeks for a rehab bed to open at the Palo Alto VA. A veteran who has agreed to treatment shouldn't have to survive the street in the meantime — that's when people are lost. A donated home is where they land: sober, fed, and looked after by peers who keep them steady and get them to that bed the day it opens.
How a property gift works
1 · Conversation
Start with the form below or a phone call. Tell us what you have and what you'd like it to become. No obligation, no pressure.
2 · Walk-through & review
We visit the property and review title, liens, condition, and carrying costs with you — and how it could serve recovery housing.
3 · Board review
Our board reviews every property gift before acceptance, so both sides know exactly what the property will be used for.
4 · Transfer & thanks
The deed transfers, you receive your IRS acknowledgment letter — and a standing invitation to see what your property became.
Straight with you
Not every property can be accepted — heavy liens, environmental problems, or carrying costs beyond our means can make a gift unworkable, and if a property truly can't serve veterans, selling it may fund more recovery than keeping it. Either way, the review is free, honest, and comes with no obligation. If a donated property is sold within three years, we file IRS Form 8282 as the law requires.
Start a donation conversation
Tell us what you'd like to give — money, a home, a building, land, a vehicle, or anything else. Sending opens a pre-addressed email to our team in your own mail app, so you keep a copy of everything.
Questions donors ask
Is my donation tax-deductible?
Yes. SUAS QRF (legal name: S.U.A.S. Veteran Crisis QRF) is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 88-3249428. Cash and non-cash gifts are deductible to the extent allowed by law, and you'll receive a written acknowledgment for your records. Property gifts over $5,000 generally need a qualified appraisal — talk with your tax advisor about your specific situation.
What kinds of property can you accept?
Houses, residential buildings, commercial buildings, and land — in any condition worth reviewing. The best fits become recovery housing: sober living environments, small residential rehab settings, or decompression space for combat veterans. Every property goes through a free review of title, liens, condition, and carrying costs before our board accepts it.
What happens to a veteran waiting for a VA rehab bed?
Rehab placement at the Palo Alto VA can take two to six weeks, and that wait is where too many veterans fall back to the street and never make it in. Donated homes are our answer: a landing place where a veteran stays sober, safe, and supported by peers until the VA bed opens — then we make sure they get there. Your property doesn't just house veterans; it holds the ones who are this close to treatment until treatment is ready for them.
The property has a mortgage, liens, or tenants. Can I still donate it?
Often, yes — but it depends on the numbers, which is exactly what the review is for. Tell us honestly what you know in the form above; there may be options like donating partial equity or timing the gift around a sale. If it turns out we can't accept it, we'll tell you plainly and, where we can, suggest who might.
What if my property doesn't fit recovery housing?
With your agreement, we can accept and sell it, putting the full proceeds into the crisis-response work — meals, rides, and shelter nights — or into preparing another property for veterans. Nothing is sold quietly: you'll know the plan before anything is signed.
Can I leave property to SUAS QRF in my will?
Yes — bequests of homes, land, and other assets are welcome, and the “Estate / future gift” option in the form starts that conversation. Your attorney can name S.U.A.S. Veteran Crisis QRF, EIN 88-3249428, as a beneficiary. We're glad to talk through what you'd like your gift to become.
How do I give money right now, without the form?
Right now, on our GoFundMe page or through the PayPal Giving Fund — one-time or monthly — or by check payable to “S.U.A.S. Veteran Crisis QRF” (email us and we'll share the mailing details). The form is simply the fastest way to tell us about a larger gift or anything that isn't cash.
In crisis now? Don't wait on us.
If you or a veteran you love is in crisis, call or text 988, then press 1 — the Veterans Crisis Line, 24/7. SUAS QRF is support coordination, not emergency care.
S.U.A.S. Veteran Crisis QRF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 88-3249428. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. No goods or services were provided in exchange for this contribution. We never sell or share donor data. This page offers general information only and is not tax, legal, or financial advice.