· Public charity
American Friends of Our Armed Forces Walt Vanbenthysen
To provide financial, emotional and social assistance to america's military men and women serving overseas and their families remaining at home.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $293k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $173,297 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA 29 PALMS | $65,000 |
| MARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICES CAMP PENDLETON | $55,000 |
| MARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICES SAN DIEGO | $48,320 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA CAMP PENDLETON | $35,000 |
| MILITARY SHOWERS OF SUPPORT | $30,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $20,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF COACHELLA VALLEY | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +56%
- OSOFFICERS SPOUSES CLUB5× · 2019–2023 · $105k · revenue +33% · 68% of their budget
- ASARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- ASARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USAone grant, 2024 · $35k
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.
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.
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
Provide financial assistance to soldiers
Provide financial support for veterans.
Helping Vets in need of financial assistance
Philanthropic
Operation shower celebrates and honors military families by providing baby showers to expectant families to ease the burden of deployment.
Organization delivers packages to soldiers and helps pay for bills and other essentials for veterans
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Military Showers of Support Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds OFFICERS SPOUSES CLUB ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds MILITARY SPOUSE ASSOCIATION OF CAMP PENDLETON ↗
- Who funds Assistance League Coachella Valley ↗
- Who funds DESERT SANDS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SHOWERS OF APPRECIATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Friends of Our Armed Forces Walt Vanbenthysen funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Friends of Our Armed Forces Walt Vanbenthysen. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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