· Public charity
Fort Myer Thrift Shop
Support the army covenant and provide enhancements to the quality of life for our military personnel and their families and the surrounding community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $67,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $196,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $128,200 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS MOVING FORWARD SERVICE DOG | $16,415 |
| JBM-HH RELIGIOUS SUPPORT OFFICE | $15,000 |
| FENWICK FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN MILITARY MUSIC | $7,000 |
| BETTER OPPORTUNITY FOR SINGLE SOLDI | $6,200 |
| BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $5,185 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 59% 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.
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.
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 +126% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FFFENWICK FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +328%
- VMVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC7× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +134%
- SOServe Our Willing Warriors3× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- WAWreaths Across Americagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +125%
- EFEXCEPTIONAL FAMILIES OF THE MILITARYone grant, 2024 · $7k
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
Multi-faceted trauma intervention & ongoing support services to individuals who have experienced severe stress or trauma as a result ofline of duty responsibilities, including, but not limited to: uniformed& non-uniformed workers who…
Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…
Empower Those Who Serve to Heal and Thrive
Wounded War Heroes was founded to show our appreciation to the men and women who have been wounded or injured as a result of serving our country, by providing them therapeutic outdoor experiences upon their return home from fighting for…
To improve the lives of our nations warriors (veterans, first responders, peace officers, and their families) by helping them build a new mission and purpose in life, support their recovery and reintegration, and empower them to accomplish…
The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.
Wounded Warriors of Mississippi provides support to post-9/11 veterans by addressing critical needs related to housing, financial hardship, and overall well-being. The organization assists veterans through home repairs such as roof repair,…
Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Moving Forward Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 FENWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Serve Our Willing Warriors ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS IN ACTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for American Military Music Opportuntie ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fort Myer Thrift Shop 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.
- Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation Inc — 4% 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.