· Public charity
Armed Forces Families Foundation Inc
The armed forces families foundation was founded with the intent to provide and care for those who care for our freedom.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $124k
- $250k+1 grant · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USO INC | $474,607 |
| CITY OF GULFPORT | $124,168 |
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 (FY17–23, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +6%- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $210k
- GJGREATER JACKSONVILLE AREA USO COUNCIL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $118k · revenue -59%
Funded once
- USUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $171k · revenue +219%
- UMUSFSP MILITARY & VETERANS SUCCESS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $120k
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Incone grant, 2023 · $115k · revenue +15%
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.
Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans
The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
The mission is to build homes for soldiers injured during the line of duty.
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
To be a haven for our Military and First Responders to come and unwind. Come alone, or with your family. The importance of our facility is to combat that 22 a day we lose to veteran suicide, and the dwindling workforce of our Doctors,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Five Star Veterans Center and the most unlike its peers is Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 34 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
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 UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER JACKSONVILLE AREA USO COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS ABILITIES RANCH CO ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY MANOR FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE STAR VETERANS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG WAREHOUSE ARTS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds True Blue Navy Families Benefactors Inc ↗
- Who funds BOLEY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH AND SARAH CARING FOR VETS INC ↗
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.
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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 Armed Forces Families Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boley Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Five Star Veterans Center — 17% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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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