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Apk Charities Corporation

To raise awareness and support for our active, retired, wounded and fallen warriors and their families and to provide financial aid and material assistance to charitable organizations and causes.

$43k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Philanthropy$34kHuman Services$24kHealth$5kAnimals$4kReligion$3kEducation$1kPublic Benefit$1k
02FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST$10,000
GUILFORD FOUNDATION$7,500
MADISON FOUNDATION$7,500
HEADSTRONG PROJECT$5,000
FISHER HOUSE CONNECTICUT$5,000
APK CHARITIES DIRECT ASST$2,083
SPIKES K9 FUND$2,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MADISON$1,750
COASTXCOAST FOUNDATION$1,000
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA$750
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR FAMILY SUPPORT: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27k · 4 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +160% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$27k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+160%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TS
    THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +160%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE CONNECTICUT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k
  • Spikes K9 Fund
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • WW
    WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +59%
  • TD
    The Duskin and Stephens Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -22%
  • JL
    JASON LANTIERI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Maine State Troopers Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Bennie Adkins Foundation

Scholarships for special forces soldiers transitioning from military to civilian life.

Philanthropy
3
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
4
Special Forces Scholarship Fund

The purpose of the special forces scholarship fund (sfsf) is to award merit based post secondary educational scholarships to the daughters and sons of current and veteran special forces soldiers.

Education
5
3-8 Oif & Oef Veterans Foundation
6
Homes Fit for Heroes Inc
Health
7
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
8
Navy Seals Fund

Provide support for all generations of current, retired and former udt/seal teammates and their immediate dependents, including gold star families. to strengthen the bonds of the brotherhood and reduce financial burden, of members of the…

Philanthropy
9
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
10
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
11
Special Ops Survivors

Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…

Human Services
12
Special Operations Fund

The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Special Forces Charitable Trust and the most unlike its peers is Spikes K9 Fund. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 · OtherTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INCFISHER HOUSE CONNECTICUT — $6,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE CONNECTICUTKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MADISON — $2,750 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MADISONAPK CHARITIES DIRECT ASST — $2,083 · OtherAPK CHARITIES DIRECT ASST+2 more — $950 · OtherTHE MADISON FOUNDATION — $17,500 · HealthTHE MADISON FOUNDATIONHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC — $5,000 · HealthHEAD STRONG PROJECT INCTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST — $14,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHA…Spikes K9 Fund — $4,000 · Public Safety & DisasterThe Duskin and Stephens Foundation — $1,000 · EducationJASON LANTIERI MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationCOAST X COAST FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Public BenefitWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$27,283Health$22,500Philanthropy$14,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,000Education$2,000Public Benefit$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MADISON FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpikes K9 Fund — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Duskin and Stephens Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Apk Charities Corporation 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Apk Charities Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Apk Charities Corporation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $63k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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