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Defense Department service dog program will fund 29 nonprofits that train dogs for veterans in 2027

A man's open hand, with a red engraved bracelet on the wrist, holds the front paw of a tan and black dog against a sandy background
A retired Air Force technical sergeant holds his service dog's paw at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., in 2018.U.S. Air Force

The Wounded Warrior Service Dog Program, run by the Uniformed Services University with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, announced the grants on Veterans Day. Awards average $500,000; the program had told its grantees in 2025 that there would be no money for 2026.

Bethesda. Twenty-nine nonprofits that raise, train and place service dogs with wounded service members and veterans will receive grants for 2027 from the Wounded Warrior Service Dog Program, a Defense Department program, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences announced on Nov. 11, Veterans Day.

The university runs the program through its Center for Advanced Research for Military Optimization, Readiness, and Rehabilitation, with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, the nonprofit that has issued the grants since it was selected in 2024. The announcement did not list the 29 grantees or the total; it said awards average $500,000.

Congress started the program in 2015 as a pilot with $1 million under the Defense Health Program and made it permanent in 2021. It has since helped provide more than 2,900 service dogs and made 240 grants in 28 states, the university said. Its money comes from a yearly appropriation: in a letter posted on the foundation's website in June 2025, the program's project manager told grantees it would receive no funding for calendar 2026.

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