Veteran Tickets Foundation

We need to honor our military, veterans, and first responders, not just on Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, and the Fourth of July, but every day.
Veteran Ticket Foundation promotes public gratitude to American hero's by providing free and discount tickets to events. The 7% of our population that are veterans and the 1% that are currently serving and the 2.25 million first responders shoulder unique burdens of stress, sacrifice, and time away from their families. The majority of our veterans have served during wartime. Yet these veterans receive limited access to charitable giving to honor their service. Military discounts are small or infrequent. The majority of veterans do not receive military discounts because they do not have an ID card. More than that, the cost for the average football game or concert is over $500 for a family of four. This makes many events simply unaffordable for average families. These All-American moments are the times we should use to welcome and acknowledge our veterans. They provide essential community re-integration and family bonding experiences and give a gift of gratitude for their time of service. We hope to give every veteran a free event in honor of their service to their country. Our veterans served and fought to protect our life and liberty, Veteran Tickets Foundation wants to say thank you by assisting in their pursuit of happiness.

Rest and leisure are of undeniable importance to a person's health and welfare. Our Founding Fathers declared the pursuit of happiness to be an unalienable human right. To assist our veterans in this important mission, we provide free and discount tickets to sporting events, concerts, theatre, and numerous other community events to promote an afternoon of relaxation with their families. We include family in our mission and allow veterans to claim a group of tickets because we believe that it is a shared burden of service and should be a shared experience of fun and recognition.
Any active duty or honorably discharged veteran from every branch of service is eligible. After verifying a veteran's service, we have created software to manage ticket donations and allow veterans to claim tickets. Tickets are either directly distributed to military bases or are awarded online through a combination of a weighted algorithm, lottery, and first-come-first-serve basis.
We continuously work at securing tickets to new, high-interest events and markets. We fund our Hero's Wish program, which allows recently deployed, wounded, and family of KIA veterans to request a one-time dream wish event, such as a trip to Disneyland. We are working on “Heroes of the Game" recognition events to be implemented in our most populous markets. We continuously reach out to veterans through contacts at military bases, veteran organizations, and social media.

Veteran Tickets Foundation (Vet Tix/1st Tix) is the only organization serving all branches of the military and first responders with events in every state. The foundation is managed by dedicated veterans intent on the mission to honor military service and first responders' sacrifice. We have produced our customized software to precisely handle our mission. With our website, we are able to pair veterans/first responders and events all over the country. We have awarded over 22,100,000 tickets since we were founded in 2008. We continue to grow each year and offer to tickets to new sporting teams and event types. We have developed trusted, working relationships with teams in the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and NCAA as well as concert promoters and entertainers, to continuously provide tickets to a wide range of events.

Veteran Tickets Foundation went over giving away just over 4.9 Million in 2023 and ended the year with over 21 Million given away since 2008. We have 2,550,000 registered users and are growing at about 1200 new accounts each day. We hope to triple our users and tickets awarded in the next two years. We continue to donate tickets to military bases, but we are working to expand the website usage so that veterans can choose their event(s) which most interests them. We have millions of veterans and first responders to still reach and honor.