We are not the Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation

This address previously belonged to the Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation, a private charity registered in Annville, Pennsylvania. Keystone Rental Journal has no connection to that organisation of any kind — no continuity, no shared people, no successor relationship, and no claim over anything it produced.

We publish this page rather than quietly redirecting, because a person looking for a veterans charity deserves to be told plainly that they have arrived somewhere else.

What is this site?

An independent editorial review site about letting property short-term in Pennsylvania. We grade vacation rental management companies and host software for property owners. We are a commercial publication, we are not a charity, and we do not fundraise.

Nothing on this site is connected to veterans' welfare, veterans' services or veterans' organisations. If that is what brought you here, this page is the end of the road and the next section is the useful part.

Are you the Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation?

No. We are not that organisation, we are not affiliated with it, we do not act on its behalf, and we are not authorised to speak for it. Nobody involved in this publication has any role in it.

We also want to be unambiguous about one thing in particular: we do not accept donations, and no payment made to this site reaches any veterans' cause. If you arrived intending to donate, do not do so here. Nothing on these pages is a donation mechanism and nothing on these pages should be read as one.

Can you send me the foundation's records?

No — we hold none of them. We have no donor list, no correspondence, no grant records, no financial statements and no archived material belonging to that organisation. We have republished none of its work and we make no claim over any of it.

If you are trying to reach the organisation, or need a record from it, the places to look are the ones that hold public filings for Pennsylvania non-profits — the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt organisation search, the Pennsylvania Department of State's business records, and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. Those bodies hold the filings; we do not.

Why does the address not match the publication?

Because a web address and a publication are different things, and this one is being used for a new purpose. That is worth saying plainly rather than dressing up, and it is exactly why this notice is linked from the footer of every page on the site instead of being buried.

We have taken three deliberate decisions about it. We do not use the previous organisation's name as a brand, a byline or a marketing device anywhere in our ordinary pages. We do not reproduce anything it published. And we keep this notice indexed and findable, so the correction is available to anyone who searches for the organisation rather than for us.

How do I tell an official organisation's site from a commercial one?

Look for the registration number, the named officers and the filing history — not the domain name. A web address proves nothing about who is behind it, and that is true in both directions.

• Check the registry, not the site: a genuine charity appears in IRS and state filings under an identifiable number.
• Look for named people: officers, directors, a registered address.
• Look for filings: annual returns are public for tax-exempt bodies.
• Be careful with donations: give through a route you have verified independently, never through a page you landed on by guessing an address.
• When in doubt, ask the regulator: the state charities bureau can confirm whether an organisation is registered.

Who runs Keystone Rental Journal?

A small editorial team that lets property in Pennsylvania. Our reviewers are named on the site with their own pages, our method is published, and our position on payment is simple: no placement on this site is for sale and no rating has ever been altered for money.

We do earn from the site. When we recommend a management company or a piece of host software we may be compensated if a reader becomes their customer, and we say so on every page where it applies. That is an ordinary commercial arrangement and it is disclosed rather than hidden. It is also not a donation, and it does not make us a charity.

I came here looking for help as a veteran. Where should I go?

Not to us — we are a rental review site and we can do nothing for you. We are sorry that a search brought you to the wrong place, and the least we can do is point at the right ones rather than leave you on a page about letting property.

In Pennsylvania the two routes that exist regardless of any particular charity are the Commonwealth's own department and your county. The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs administers state veterans' programmes. Every county in Pennsylvania has a director of veterans affairs whose job is to help residents claim what they are entitled to, and contacting your county's office costs nothing. At federal level, the US Department of Veterans Affairs is the authority on benefits and healthcare.

• Your county director of veterans affairs — the closest human help, and free.
• Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs — state programmes and the state Veterans' Trust Fund.
• US Department of Veterans Affairs — federal benefits and healthcare.
• Accredited veterans service organisations — national bodies with representatives who file claims at no charge.

We deliberately do not name a specific charity to give to. We are not qualified to vet one, and recommending a recipient from a commercial page would be exactly the kind of confusion this notice exists to prevent.

Will you take this notice down?

No. It stays up, indexed, and linked from every page. A notice that disappears once traffic settles would defeat the purpose of publishing it.

Who do I contact about this page?

Use the contact page on this site for anything concerning this publication. For anything concerning the previous organisation, we are the wrong people to ask and we would only be guessing — the public registries above are the right route.