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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.

$488k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$623kPublic Benefit$320kEducation$250kHousing & Shelter$131kArts & Culture$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$25k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $410k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NEW MEXICO: $25k → 14%VETERANS RESOURCE GROUP: $50k → 11%360 VETERANS: $50k → 4%VETERAN SUCCESS RESOURCE GROUP: $100k → 6%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD: $40k → 7%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $120k → 4%360 VETERANS: $50k → 6%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $75k → 4%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $75k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
MA
CA
VA
MD
NM
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +134% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VM
    VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $310k · revenue +134% · 57% of their budget
  • SL
    Seal Legacy Foundation Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $280k · revenue +74%
  • KS
    KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +285%

Funded once

  • VR
    VETERANS RESOURCE GROUP
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SE
    SHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +5% · 27% of their budget
  • TN
    TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
2
Texas Wounded Warriors

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…

Public Benefit
3
3-8 Oif & Oef Veterans Foundation
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4
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
5
For Veterans Sake Foundation

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…

Health
6
Lead the Way Fund Inc

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…

Human Services
7
American Heroes Foundation

Raises funds and provides support to military veteran and first responder organizations, focusing on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being

Human Services
8
Warriors Fund

Support those in need

Human Services
9
Warfighter Outfitters

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…

—
10
Warrior Legacy Foundation

Providing assistance to wounded military

Arts & Culture
11
Quick Reaction Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
12
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Moving Forward Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $310,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC360 VETERANS: $200,000 · Human Services360 VETERANSVETERANS RESOURCE GROUP: $50,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS RESOURCE GROUPAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $280,000 · Public BenefitSeal Legacy Foundation IncCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIA…TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY …KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND: $250,000 · OtherKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMEN…HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $131,334 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR …WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 · HealthSHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER: $35,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$585,000Public Benefit$345,000Other$250,000Housing & Shelter$131,334Health$38,000Arts & Culture$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $310,000 over 4y, 57% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $280,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budget360 VETERANS: $200,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $131,334 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHEP-TY EMBRACE GAME CHANGER: $35,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTEXAS NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Greater Cause Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Greater Cause Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to A Greater Cause Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to A Greater Cause Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $3k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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