Wisconsin · Private foundation
American Warrior Initiative Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $854k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 135
- Grants FY2025
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $613
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $280,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 218
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 31
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations American Warrior Initiative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 134 | $854k | 85% |
| FY2024 | 133 | $885k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 124 | $880k | 91% |
| FY2022 | 155 | $1.1M | 87% |
| FY2021 | 171 | $1.8M | 87% |
| FY2020 | 218 | $1.0M | 93% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $651k | 93% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $524k | 92% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom Canine Service Dog Academy Inc | $857,463 | 4 | 51% |
| Stillwater Ranch Inc | $235,210 | 7 | 52% |
| Guardian Service Dogs | $161,400 | 5 | 24% |
| Texas Hearing & Service Dogs Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Rainbow Service Dogs Inc | $108,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Tails of Valor Paws of Honor Program In | $91,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Forgotten Coast K9 Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 72% |
| Next Step Service Dogs | $84,150 | 3 | 12% |
| K9s for Veterans Nfp | $82,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation 300 Inc | $80,500 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 900 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
American Warrior Initiative Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About American Warrior Initiative Inc
- How much does American Warrior Initiative Inc give?
- American Warrior Initiative Inc reported 135 grants totaling $854,322 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 218 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does American Warrior Initiative Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (40%), Human Services (25%), Health (7%).
- Who are American Warrior Initiative Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Custom Canine Service Dog Academy Inc ($857k), Stillwater Ranch Inc ($235k), Guardian Service Dogs ($161k).
- Does American Warrior Initiative Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does American Warrior Initiative Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Warrior Initiative Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Disabled Veterans National Foundation, Petsmart Charities Inc.
- Where is American Warrior Initiative Inc based?
- American Warrior Initiative Inc is based in WI.
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