· Public charity
Finance of America Cares
Our mission is to strengthen our communities, enrich lives, and inspire caring.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $190,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $309,828 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,828 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA | $25,000 |
| TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PETS FOR THE EDERLY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC | $25,000 |
| ANGELS OF AMERICAS FALLEN | $25,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPEDENCE | $10,000 |
| HIRE HEROES USA | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC | $10,000 |
| HOMECOMING 250 NAVY MARINE CORPS | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($390k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($71k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($71k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $45k · revenue +56%- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC2× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +70%
- TITHE IDEA PROJECT2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- IDINTERNATIONAL DATA POLICY COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $71k
- VOVETERANS' OUTREACHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +38%
- CCChildren's Cancer Associationone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -32%
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.
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…
Helping Heroes provides support services and resources to homeless and near homeless veterans, in order to transition them to, or maintain self-sufficiency. The goal is reintegration into society as men and women who currently feel…
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Empowering military veterans to take control of their transitions throughout life.
We are dedicated to a single purpose: empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. We accomplish this by ensuring that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them;…
Provide adapted homes and emergency financial aid to severly wonded heros injured in the expanded war on terror. Give marriage and caregiver support, provide recreational activities, and facilitate community support.
Build strong, stable, and secure military families so they can thrive - not simply struggle to get by - in the communities they've worked so hard to protect.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
To provide housing opportunities for low income households, to serve the needs of homeless military veterans through case management, advocacy, employment opportunities, temporary and permanent housing to advocate for all military veterans.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
To connect, lead, and advocate in communities to ensure service members, veterans, and their families thrive. see schedule o for additional information.veterans bridge home connects veterans and their families, in any state of transition,…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Dmf Youth Inc. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 32 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 HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE IDEA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECOMING 250 NAVY MARINE CORPS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS' OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTH INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Long Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pride of Quakertown ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds Joy in the Cause Company ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marine Corps League Auxiliary Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds DMF YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds WYAKIN WARRIOR 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Finance of America Cares 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.
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Home of the Brave Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund 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.