· Private foundation
American Warrior Initiative Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k117 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $286k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC | $305,303 |
| GUARDIAN SERVICE DOGS | $65,000 |
| BRIGADOON SERVICE DOGS | $30,000 |
| NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,890 |
| DOG TRAINING ELITE OKLAHOMA | $24,739 |
| STILLWATER RANCH | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| K9S FOR VETERANS | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PUP MASTER ACADEMY | $13,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,171 |
| FORWARD ASSIST | $12,100 |
| MISSION SERVICE DOG | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +48% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 110 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
- CCCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC3× · 2020–2024 · $577k · revenue +65% · 51% of their budget
- SRStillwater Ranch Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $177k · revenue +95% · 52% of their budget
- GSGuardian Service Dogs5× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $102k
- ASA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuaryone grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue -40%
- SRSABINE RETIREMENT AND REHABone grant, 2020 · $39k
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.
Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.
to assist veterans in obtaining service animals
Provide service dogs to us military veterans
Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders
Empower disabled individuals to train a dog as their service dog, increasing their independence.
Service dogs for disabled veterans
Warrior Paws, Inc. missions is to provide veterans and first responders with service dogs to reduce suicide rates and improve quality of life. We will be a resource hub for veteran services, support and referrals.
We serve veterans with Post Traumatic Syndrome Disease, Traumatic Brain Injuries, and Military Sexual Trauma by finding service dogs that we rescue and train for the Veterans specific needs. We have matched over 79 veterans with dogs and…
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
Filling the void in necessary care for veterans and first responders by providing life changing services that include recreational therapy opportunities and assistance animals focused on giving our nations heroes their freedom and…
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…
Combat veteran-founded and operated Semper K9s mission is to enhance the quality of life for wounded members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families by providing them with custom-trained mental health mobility service dogs. Using…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hero Pups Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Adoptable Dog. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 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. 68 of the 868 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Stillwater Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds Guardian Service Dogs ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds TAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN COAST K9 INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION 300 INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGADOON SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds Forward Assist ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS SPOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds VET SERVICE DOGS NFP ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PTSD TBI Dogs and Tags of Wyoming ↗
- Who funds A Cause to Give Us Paws ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Petco Love · Direct Relief · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Sempra Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation
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 American Warrior Initiative Inc 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.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fort Kennedy — 1% of income from government
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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