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Association of the United States Army

The ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY (ausa) supports soldiers, their families and army civilians, provides a voice for the army, and honors those who have served.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$561k
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 FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$40MHuman Services$3.1MFood & Nutrition$2.4MRecreation & Sports$707kEducation$281kPublic Benefit$223kAnimals$63kYouth Development$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $1,358,283 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,493,723 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,135,440 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
  • $250k+2 grants · $861k
$17,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$161M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US ARMY$561,044
ARMY 10 MILER$300,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$170,000
WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES$100,000
CHARLIE NORWOOD VA FISHER HOUSE$37,000
ARMY MWRF$35,000
SECRETARY OF THE ARMY$34,239
BLACK VETERANS EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL$25,000
FT EISENHOWER FISHER HOUSE$17,000
USA PATRIOTS$15,000
NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITES STATES$12,000
ARMY G1$12,000
ARMY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
OPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME$10,000
FORT DRUM DIRECTORATE OF FAMILY AND MORAL WELFARE AND RECREATION$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $455k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS: $15k → 11%ARMED FORCES YMCA KILLEEN: $100k → 14%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $93k → 16%ARMED SERVICES YMCA FORT CAMPBELL: $100k → 11%NATIONAL VETERANS NETWORKTIDES CENTER: $8k → 14%GAMSD: $63k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $40k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $12k → 16%BLACK VETERANS EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $25k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$45M · 25 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
33

Total granted

$45M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+56%

Still filing today

60%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AE
    ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +32%
  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $208k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • VM
    VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $894k · revenue -7%
  • EP
    EL PASO ASYMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • EW
    EANGUS WE CARE FOR AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
2
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
3
Amvets (American Veterans)

Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…

4
Society of American Military Engineers

To provide training, education and support to the military and uniformed services and other federal, state and local government agencies responsible for the nation's infrastructure, and to advance collaboration and engagement between…

5
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

6
Marine Corps Association

The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…

7
American Legion Auxiliary Dept of Minnes

In the spirit of service, not self, the mission of the american legion auxiliary is to support the american legion and to honor the sacrifice of those who serve by enhancing the lives of our veterans, military, and their families, both at…

8
Naval War College Foundation Inc

Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
11
Wisconsin National Guard Association Inc

To promote the relevance, readiness, and modernization of our national guard, improving the quality of life for our members, and supporting state and national policies to advance the security of the united states.

12
Uso Foundation

The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National Ranger Associationinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYmca Youth DevelopmentMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%35%10–20yr14%23%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr15%89%35–55yr15%5%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/43
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,425

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 65 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Army Historical Foundation Inc — $38,529,732 · Arts & CultureThe Army Historical Foundation Inc+4 more — $927,766 · Arts & CultureUS ARMY — $1,411,044 · OtherUS ARMYFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,080,088 · OtherFISHER HO…ARMY 10 MILER — $380,000 · OtherARMY 10 M…+33 more — $982,082 · Other+33 moreARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF — $2,000,000 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $120,000 · Public Benefit+6 more — $153,240 · Public BenefitGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $207,587 · Human ServicesARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $200,000 · Human ServicesBlack Veterans Empowerment Council Inc — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $22,200 · Human ServicesUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS — $104,380 · EducationArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc — $64,500 · EducationCollege Options Foundation Inc — $53,000 · EducationARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,613 · EducationCOMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 · Education+1 more — $5,500 · EducationVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION — $27,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMOTOR CITY NGAUS 2024 INC — $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN — $10,000 · InternationalTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$39,457,498Other$3,853,214Public Benefit$2,273,240Human Services$454,787Education$300,493Philanthropy$37,000International$20,000Social Science$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $38,529,732 over 2y, 52% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF — $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $1,080,088 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $207,587 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS — $104,380 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetOPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME — $67,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc — $64,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCollege Options Foundation Inc — $53,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,613 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSOME GAVE ALL THE JOEY GRAVES FOUNDATION INC — $43,740 over 4y, 27% of budgetVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $22,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC — $18,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN — $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S MIGHTY WARRIORS — $14,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL BOARD OF THE ROCKS INC — $11,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOTOR CITY NGAUS 2024 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS Naval Sea Cadet Corps — $5,644 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLas Positas College Foundation — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $5,300 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL RANGER ASSOCIATIONINC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

  • Who funds The Army Historical Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC
  • Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
  • Who funds USA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS
  • Who funds OPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME
  • Who funds Army Scholarship Foundation Inc
  • Who funds College Options Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SOME GAVE ALL THE JOEY GRAVES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Black Veterans Empowerment Council Inc
  • Who funds COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds EN GARDE ARTS INC
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE 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.

Veterans United FoundationMO14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Fluor Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Association of the United States Army 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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, 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.

    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 65 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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