· Public charity
Defense Orientation Conference Association
Defense Orientation Conference Association (DOCA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, educational association directed toward the interest of national defense without special advocacy of any particular military service or concept.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USO Hawaii | $10,000 |
| Hawaii First Sergeant Council | $10,000 |
| National Defense University (NDU) | $8,938 |
| Navy Marine Corps Relief Society Kaneohe Bay | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 60% of Defense Orientation Conference Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 5%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NDNATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $128k · revenue +119%
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +3%- NCNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY2× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SASOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +23%
- NSNAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -47%
- NWNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Defense Orientation Conference Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Defense Orientation Conference Association. Bigger dots raise more.
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