· Public charity
Blue Star Families Inc
Blue star families is committed to connecting one another through the unique challenges of military service and asking the larger civilian population to help as well, strengthening military families regardless of rank, branch of service or physical location, and leading military family members towards opportunities to build strength in…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAVAL SERVICES FAMILYLINE | $25,000 |
| THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| VETS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS | $20,000 |
| COMBINED ARMS | $15,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA EL PASO | $15,000 |
| MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| HAMPTON ROADS WORKFORCE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP | $15,000 |
| ROLLA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNITED THROUGH READING - VENDOR | $15,000 |
| PAY-LESS SUPERMARKETS | $15,000 |
| ALBANY CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA FORT BRAGG | $15,000 |
| VALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…
Bridging the gap between military and civilian life through outdoor adventures.
Services for veterans
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
The Veteran Service Alliance exists to bring together a diverse array of nonprofits, pooling resources, expertise, and passion to create a collective impact on the lives of those who have selflessly served our country.
The mission of Life Skills for Soldiers is to improve service-members' lives through life skills education. Our vision is to create a platform and leverage the train-the-trainer methodology to make it easy for all military leaders to teach…
Provide financial support for veterans.
Hire heroes usa empowers u.s. military members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, hire heroes usa's services are provided at no cost to the client.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armed Services Ymca of the Usa and the most unlike its peers is Vets Community Connections. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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.
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 VETS COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVAL SERVICES FAMILYLINE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Arms ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Military Support Alliance of NJ Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds ROLLA CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Wounded Warrior Project Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Blue Star Families 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.