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American Warrior Initiative Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$854k
Granted FY2025still arriving
135
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$281k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0161% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$2.8MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$516kYouth Development$108kHousing & Shelter$92kArts & Culture$89kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kFood & Nutrition$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k124 grants · $206k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
  • $250k+1 grant · $281k
$613
Median grant
31
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY$280,700
K9S FOR VETERANS NFP$82,500
KNIGHTWATCH K9 SERVICE DOGS$71,000
STILLWATER RANCH$57,975
NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES$30,000
SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND$30,000
HERO PUPS INC$28,300
ULTIMATE CANINE LLC$23,806
DOG TRAINING ELITE GREATER NEW HAMPSHIRE$16,349
DOG TRAINING ELITE SALT LAKE$14,935
BUCKEYE K9$13,000
DOG TRAINING ELITE MASSACHUSETTS$9,321
Individual grant recipient$9,165
WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS$8,500
WEST ALLIS WEST MILWAUKEE MONOGRAM ORGANIZATION$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELPING PAWS INC: $10k → 11%DOG TAG BUDDIES: $23k → 9%DARBY'S WARRIOR SUPPORT: $10k → 16%HOME FRONT K9 PROJECT INC: $12k → 10%FORGOTTEN COAST K9: $85k → 21%FORWARD ASSIST: $36k → 8%THE JOEL FUND: $3k → 8%STILLWATER RANCH: $58k → 11%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $30k → 8%DOG TAG BUDDIES: $10k → 9%NEXT STEP SERVICE DOGS: $40k → 10%NEXT STEP SERVICE DOGS: $20k → 11%USA HOMEOWNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $9k → 14%FORGOTTEN COAST K9: $5k → 21%CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC: $305k → 10%FORWARD ASSIST INC: $28k → 8%STILLWATER RANCH: $40k → 11%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $30k → 9%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $20k → 8%VETCARES INC: $3k → 11%CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY: $281k → 10%STILLWATER RANCH: $40k → 11%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $30k → 9%NEXT STEP SERVICE DOGS: $24k → 11%CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC: $211k → 10%FORWARD ASSIST: $12k → 8%STILLWATER RANCH: $26k → 11%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $20k → 9%NEADS: $45k → 11%STILLWATER RANCH: $25k → 11%NEADS: $4k → 11%STILLWATER RANCH: $24k → 11%SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND: $30k → 11%CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC: $60k → 10%STILLWATER RANCH: $22k → 11%SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $10k → 11%VICTORY SERVICE DOGS INC: $8k → 9%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

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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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 84 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 114 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
784

Total granted

$4.2M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+3%

Still filing today

24%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • CC
    CUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $857k · revenue +65% · 51% of their budget
  • SR
    Stillwater Ranch Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $235k · revenue +95% · 52% of their budget
  • GS
    Guardian Service Dogs
    5× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $102k
  • AS
    A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary
    one grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue -40%
  • SR
    SABINE RETIREMENT AND REHAB
    one grant, 2020 · $39k
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
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
2
Baden K9 Kares Foundation Inc

to assist veterans in obtaining service animals

Human Services
3
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
4
Veteran Service Dogs Organization

Provide service dogs to us military veterans

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5
Faithfully K9 Service Dog and Dog Training

Empower disabled individuals to train a dog as their service dog, increasing their independence.

Animals
6
Spartan Paws 4 Warriors

Service dogs for disabled veterans

Animals
7
Warrior Paws Inc

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.

Human Services
8
CONNORSK9-Paws Inc

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…

Public Benefit
9
Wardogs-Making It Home Inc

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…

Human Services
10
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
11
Companions for Heroes

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.

Human Services
12
Paws of War Inc

To rescue, train and place shelter dogs to serve and provide independence to our veterans & first responders that suffer the traumatic effects of war, and provide essential and supportive services to our heroes in need.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hero Pups Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 982 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $659,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $270,453 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGuardian Service Dogs: $161,400 · Other+164 more: $2,951,198 · Other+164 moreCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC: $857,463 · Human ServicesCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACA…Stillwater Ranch Inc: $235,210 · Human ServicesStillwater Ranch IncFORGOTTEN COAST K9 INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN COAST K9 INCNEXT STEP SERVICE DOGS: $84,150 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $80,000 · Human ServicesForward Assist: $76,100 · Human Services+9 more: $220,204 · Human Services+9 moreK9S FOR VETERANS NFP: $82,500 · AnimalsBRIGADOON SERVICE DOGS: $80,000 · AnimalsHERO PUPS INC: $48,300 · AnimalsVET SERVICE DOGS NFP: $36,000 · AnimalsSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC: $30,000 · AnimalsPTSD TBI Dogs and Tags of Wyoming: $25,000 · AnimalsA Cause to Give Us Paws: $25,000 · AnimalsOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $20,000 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsTAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN: $91,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS SPOUSE PROJECT: $49,732 · Public BenefitA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $43,500 · Public BenefitLABS FOR LIBERTY: $15,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION 300 INC: $80,500 · Youth DevelopmentSADDLES IN SERVICE: $18,000 · HealthWARRIORS' BEST FRIEND FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $7,100 · HealthPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education
Other$4,042,451Human Services$1,643,127Animals$356,800Public Benefit$199,232Youth Development$80,500Health$35,100Education$20,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC: $857,463 over 4y, 51% of budgetStillwater Ranch Inc: $235,210 over 7y, 52% of budgetGuardian Service Dogs: $161,400 over 5y, 24% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $110,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN: $91,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFORGOTTEN COAST K9 INC: $90,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetNEXT STEP SERVICE DOGS: $84,150 over 3y, 12% of budgetOPERATION 300 INC: $80,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBRIGADOON SERVICE DOGS: $80,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $80,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetForward Assist: $76,100 over 3y, 60% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS SPOUSE PROJECT: $49,732 over 3y, 49% of budgetNEADS INC: $48,704 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHERO PUPS INC: $48,300 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVET SERVICE DOGS NFP: $36,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetDOG TAG BUDDIES INC: $33,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetPTSD TBI Dogs and Tags of Wyoming: $25,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetPIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSADDLES IN SERVICE: $18,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetLABS FOR LIBERTY: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTRIBUTE TO HONOR: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOME FRONT K9 PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPROJECT VETERANS PRIDE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION K9: $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetWARRIORS' BEST FRIEND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetDARBY'S WARRIOR SUPPORT: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGreat Plains Assistance Dogs Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWATERVILLE FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $8,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVICTORY SERVICE DOGS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFORT KENNEDY: $8,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVETERANS NON PROFIT: $7,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $7,100 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 K9S FOR VETERANS NFP ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION 300 INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGADOON SERVICE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES ↗
  • Who funds Forward Assist ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS SPOUSE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds HERO PUPS INC ↗
  • Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND ↗
  • Who funds VET SERVICE DOGS NFP ↗
  • Who funds DOG TAG BUDDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗

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.

Veterans United Found…Disabled Veterans Nat…Petsmart Charities IncThe Albertsons Compan…THDF II Inc DBA The H…Petco LoveDirect ReliefCommunities Foundatio…Sempra FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…AbbVie FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…
Veterans United FoundationMO23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 American Warrior Initiative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Warrior Initiative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to American Warrior Initiative Inc?

Find your warmest path to American Warrior Initiative Inc 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 982 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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