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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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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 (FY17–17, $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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +160% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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 +152%

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
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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Special Forces Charitable Trust; 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 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. 9 of the 14 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Apk Charities Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Apk Charities Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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