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Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation

The Elizabeth Dole Foundation's mission is to empower military and veteran caregivers, their families, and their communities through programs, partnerships, and advocacy that drive innovation and sustainable solutions.

$459k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.6MHealth$272kArts & Culture$155kCrime & Legal$135kEmployment$128kSocial Science$125kEducation$65kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $75,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $459,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $384,093 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pritzker Military Museum & Library$25,000
Prisca Project LLC$15,000
National Association of Corporate Directors$15,000
Easterseals$10,000
TBI Warrior Foundation$5,000
No Greater Sacrifice Foundation$5,000
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 (FY18–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Student Veterans of America: $38k → 14%Community Hospice & Palliative Care Fdn: $10k → 14%Caregivers on the Homefront Inc: $20k → 8%Rosalynn Carter Institute: $60k → 22%QUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $175k → 7%Veterans LYFE Services: $40k → 13%Caregivers on the Homefront Inc: $18k → 8%Quality of Life Foundation: $125k → 7%Quality of Life Foundation: $100k → 7%Code of Support Foundation: $212k → 9%Quality of Life Foundation: $10k → 7%Code of Support Foundation: $150k → 9%Code of Support Foundation: $100k → 9%Code of Support Foundation: $70k → 9%Code of Support Foundation: $60k → 9%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

IL
MI
MA
NV
IN
PA
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
MS
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 13 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$1.8M
$809k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

77%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • BS
    BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $140k · revenue +570%
  • CJ
    COLONEL JAMES N PRITZKER LIBRARY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +18%
  • PUBLIC COUNSEL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $135k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • The Rand Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +34%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • RC
    ROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -62%

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
National Veterans Foundation Inc

To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.

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2
Veterans Navigation Network

Transition for service members.

Health
3
American Military Family Inc

American military family (amf) provides veterans and their families with assistance, whether it be emotional, physical, mental, or finanical, for their missing, suicidal, displaced or struggling hero.

Public Benefit
4
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…

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5
Veterans Recovery Resources

Our mission is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection. our vision is to build a thriving community where service members, veterans, first responders,…

Public Benefit
6
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
7
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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8
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
9
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc

The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.

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10
Warrior Reunion Foundation

Supports combat veterans in overcoming the challenges of post-military transition by reconnecting those who served together overseas through the execution of recovery reunions.

Public Benefit
11
Soldiers' Angels

Soldiers' angels provides aid, comfort, and resources to the military, veterans, and their families.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Heroes Care Inc

A collaborate effort among well established non-governmental organizations designed to provide complete and proactive support for members of all branches of the military and their families through pre-deployment, deployment, family…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Star Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colonel James N Pritzker Library of the Citizen Soldier. 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 backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesPublic Library SupportCommunity FoundationsPublic University Foundatio…Hospice Care ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Health CentersAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%57%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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%
2/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,526

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

33 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. 33 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Code of Support Foundation — $592,000 · Human ServicesCode of Support FoundationQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $410,000 · Human ServicesQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INCROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS — $60,000 · Human ServicesVeterans LYFE Services — $40,000 · Human Services+3 more — $86,000 · Human Services+3 moreBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $140,000 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FAMILI…The Rand Corporation — $124,991 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corpora…NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $54,210 · Public BenefitNATIONAL MILITAR…OPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION GRATIT…PROJECT NEW HOPE INC — $17,500 · Public BenefitNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS — $15,000 · Public BenefitSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEA…COMMUNITY INFORMATION & REFERRAL — $56,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY INFORMATION &…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $54,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSI…PRISCA PROJECT LLC — $50,000 · OtherPRISCA PROJECT LLCVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $50,000 · OtherVETERANS LEADERSHIP PRO…TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $46,513 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIV…UCLA FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherUCLA FOUNDATIONEmory University — $25,000 · OtherOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $30,000 · OtherOUR MILITARY KIDS INCYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $25,000 · OtherWORKLIFE MINISTRY INC — $60,000 · OtherWORKLIFE MINISTRY INC+5 more — $38,638 · Other+5 moreEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $65,000 · HealthTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $60,000 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS — $15,000 · HealthCOLONEL JAMES N PRITZKER LIBRARY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER — $140,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC COUNSEL — $135,000 · Crime & LegalDOG TAG INC — $67,500 · Employment
Human Services$1,188,000Public Benefit$396,701Other$545,651Health$170,000Arts & Culture$155,000Crime & Legal$135,000Employment$67,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCode of Support Foundation — $592,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $410,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOLONEL JAMES N PRITZKER LIBRARY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER — $140,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $135,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $124,991 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOG TAG INC — $67,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $60,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWORKLIFE MINISTRY INC — $60,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY INFORMATION & REFERRAL — $56,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $54,210 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVeterans LYFE Services — $40,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT INC — $38,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSTUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA — $38,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEmory University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT NEW HOPE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,725 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNo Greater Sacrifice Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTBI WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Bob Woodruff Family F…Wounded Warrior Proje…Veterans United Found…Disabled American Vet…AARPCharities Aid Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…Raymond James Charita…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation IncNY23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Wounded Warrior Project Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust · AARP · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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, FY20–25

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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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