· Public charity
A Greater Cause Foundation
The A GREATER CAUSE FOUNDATION (agc) is dedicated to providing support grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations that fulfill scholarship, leadership, fellowship, and service.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k2 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC | $120,000 |
| SEAL LEGACY FOUNDATION INC | $120,000 |
| VETERAN SUCCESS RESOURCE GROUP | $100,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $70,000 |
| CATCH A LIFT FUND | $40,000 |
| WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +134% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- VMVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC4× · 2017–2020 · $310k · revenue +134% · 57% of their budget
- SLSeal Legacy Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $280k · revenue +74%
- KSKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +285%
Funded once
- VRVETERANS RESOURCE GROUPone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SESHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGERone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
- TNTEXAS NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…
Provide financial support for veterans.
For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…
Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…
Raises funds and provides support to military veteran and first responder organizations, focusing on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being
Support those in need
Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…
Providing assistance to wounded military
Quick reaction foundation (qrf) is a non-profit organization founded by veterans to provide rapid response to the developing needs of elite operators and their families from within select u.s. special operations command ("ussocom") teams.…
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Moving Forward Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shep-Ty Embrace Game Changer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds 360 VETERANS ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RESOURCE GROUP ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Greater Cause Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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