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· Public charity
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
To provide educational scholarships for qualifying spouses and/or dependent children of military service men and women and first responders killed or disabled while serving and defending our great nation.
$42M
Granted FY2024
1,611
Grants
52
Communities
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$154MEducation$10MReligion$52kRecreation & Sports$17kArts & Culture$16kCommunity Improvement$11kHuman Services$10kHealth$7kOther$28M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
game golf
2023
game golf
2024
scholarshipstudentschristiancatholiclearningacademicliberal arts
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1611 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k524 grants · $3.7M
- $10k–50k940 grants · $17M
- $50k–250k137 grants · $14M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.5M
$11,452
Median grant
52
States reached
$109M
Total assets
Largest grants
- PGA FOUNDATION INC DBA PGA REACH$500,000
- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE STATION$406,184
- UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - TUSCALOOSA$389,761
- OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY - STILLWATER$387,047
- UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA - NORMAN$340,831
- LIBERTY UNIVERSITY$325,217
- ST ANNE-PACELLI CATHOLIC SCHOOL$312,500
- AUBURN UNIVERSITY - AUBURN$304,868
- VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY$271,552
- FAYETTEVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$261,311
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - SAN ANTONIO$239,588
- UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE - KNOXVILLE$234,940
- CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY$222,015
- TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - SAN MARCOS$219,329
- UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$215,458
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Trinity College
Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.
Education
2
The Collegiate School
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
Education
3
Christian Brothers University
Christian brothers university is a private, catholic comprehensive university committed to preparing students of all faiths and backgrounds to excel in their professional and public lives by providing challenging educational opportunities…
Education
4
Trinity International University
Trinity international university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through four schools at locations in illinois, florida, and california.
Education
5
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Education
6
Luther College
On a campus of more than 800 acres along the banks of the upper iowa river in decorah, iowa, luther is a true residential campus, with 97 percent of students living on campus and nearly 95 percent of faculty choosing to live within five…
Education
7
Central Christian College of Kansas
Educating students within a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college program
Education
8
Providence Christian College
The college provides a post-secondary liberal arts education from a historic Reformed Christian Perspective.
Education
9
Greenville College
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
Education
10
Louisville Collegiate School
To operate a jk-12, co-educational independent school.
Education
11
William Carey University
As a christian university which embraces its baptist heritage and namesake, william carey university provides quality educational programs within a caring christian academic community, which challenge the individual student to excel in…
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Columbia College
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schreiner University and the most unlike its peers is The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund. 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.
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
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 62 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.2%3/1,497
the rest of the field
12%
2,145/17,925
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.
05the grantee network
641 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
97
Early backer (in before they grew)
639/641
Grantees still filing
544/641
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$153,740,503Other$28,305,070Education$10,253,595Religion$51,696Recreation & Sports$16,750Arts & Culture$15,500Community Improvement$11,250
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 TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PGA FOUNDATION INC DBA PGA REACH ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY ONLINE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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.
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN185.2× affinity269 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Chemical Society · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Council of Independent Colleges · The Ohio Foundation Of · San Antonio Livestock Exposition · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Lyford Cay Foundation Inc · Association of Public and Land-Grant
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 organisation FOLDS OF HONOR 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
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RIVENDELL ACADEMY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 990917398 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RIVENDELL ACADEMY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Folds of Honor Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Folds of Honor Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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