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Forever Warriors Inc at a glance

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Forever Warriors Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$74kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$39kPhilanthropy$26kCommunity Improvement$23kEmployment$15kPublic Benefit$7kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $142k
$17,250
Median grant
6
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING HOOF STEPS$25,000
UNITED WAY EMERALD COAST$24,000
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF THE EMERALD COAST$21,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES$17,250
EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION$13,000
THE FISHER HOUSE$11,000
FEEDING THE GULF COAST$10,000
THE HONOR FOUNDATION$6,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS TRANSITION FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM-FL: $18k → 9%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM-FL: $15k → 9%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM-FL: $3k → 9%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$310k · 14 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$310k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+3%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesEmploymentHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY EMERALD COAST
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • HH
    HEALING HOOF STEPS CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +64%
  • TH
    THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • FW
    FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL JROTC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Florida Is for Veterans Inc

Veterans florida provides career, skillbridge and entrepreneurship training and opportunities for separating or retiring servicemembers, veterans, and their spouses in or moving to florida, and we assist employers seeking to strengthen…

Public Benefit
2
Amvets Department of Florida Inc

Veterans serving veterans.

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3
National Veterans Hiring Association

The support of our sponsors allows veterans to empower veterans, military spouses, and transitioning service members to find meaningful employment opportunities each year. Committed to meaningful opportunity employment advisory councils…

Public Benefit
4
Warrior Built Foundation Inc

Organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes for combat veterans to provide motivation, camaraderie, and to offer a release to cope with similar difficulties in a positive and therapeutic way. Providing safe, fun, and…

Health
5
Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board Inc

To provide customized employment and training solutions that facilitate economic prosperity in partnership with education, economic development, chambers of commerce, community-based organizations, local governments and businesses.

Education
6
Southeast Florida Honor Flight Inc

Flying local wwii, korean & vietnam war veterans to washington dc to visit the memorials built to honor their service and sacrifices.

Education
7
Gold Coast Veterans Foundation

To reduce or eliminiate suffering, lowered quality of life, reintegration difficulties, and negative lifetime outcomes of American military veterans.

Human Services
8
Gulf Coast Ceo Forum

To be the premier organization for entrepreneurital ceos in the gulf coast area of sw florida. the foundation is build upon its ability to build relationships, generate ideas and formulate solutions; all 3 are focused on the mangement and…

Membership Benefit
9
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
10
Emerald Coast Veterans Alliance Inc

Raise funds as a nonprofit to assist local veterans in need in our local area

Human Services
11
The Folded Flag Foundation

The mission of the folded flag foundation is to provide scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the united states military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident…

Public Benefit
12
Northeast Florida Womens Veterans Inc

Women veterans ignited, inc. is focused on ensuring women who have served on active duty, national guard or reserves transition into the civilian community with the tools they need to become self-sufficient. we will provide supportive…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Irreverent Warriors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY EMERALD COAST: $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY EMERALD COAST1 SOFSS MARKETING: $36,200 · Other1 SOFSS MARKETINGFUTURE STARS FOOTBALL CLINIC: $25,000 · OtherFUTURE STARS FOOTBALL CLINICFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREATER FORT WALTON BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $20,000 · OtherGREATER FORT WALTON BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC96TH FORCE SUPPORT SQUADRON: $19,200 · Other96TH FORCE SUPPORT SQUADRONIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $28,050 · Other+8 moreDEFENDERS OF FREEDOM - FL INC: $36,138 · Human ServicesDEFENDERS OF FRE…EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $23,500 · Human ServicesEOD WARRIOR FOUN…HEALING HOOF STEPS CORPORATION: $27,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $21,500 · Community ImprovementTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · EmploymentTHE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES INC: $17,250 · PhilanthropyIRREVERENT WARRIORS INC: $7,000 · Public BenefitSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitSURF BRIGADE INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitFeeding the Gulf Coast: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$243,450Human Services$59,638Health$27,500Community Improvement$21,500Employment$21,000Philanthropy$17,250Public Benefit$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY EMERALD COAST: $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDEFENDERS OF FREEDOM - FL INC: $36,138 over 2y, 28% of budgetHEALING HOOF STEPS CORPORATION: $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $21,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER FORT WALTON BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES INC: $17,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRREVERENT WARRIORS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAVARRE BEACH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSURF BRIGADE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEMERALD COAST ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Forever Warriors Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forever Warriors Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • United Way Emerald Coast: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Forever Warriors Inc?

Find your warmest path to Forever Warriors Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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