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Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

International$112kEducation$38kHuman Services$23kPhilanthropy$20kEmployment$18kPublic Benefit$14kRecreation & Sports$9kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,964
Median grant
11
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Special Forces Foundation$15,000
Special Operations Warrior Foundation$15,000
Task Force Dagger$9,167
Air Commando Association$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,032
The Honor Foundation$5,000
North Carolina Community Foundation$5,000
Warrior Ethos$3,500
SealKids$2,981
The Green Beret Foundation$2,976
AllTru Inc$2,967
Military Special Operations Family Collaborative$2,964
Special Operators Transition Foundation$2,953
Marine Raider Foundation$2,935
Gallant Few$2,935
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 (FY24–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Green Beret Foundation: $3k → 9%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $358 → 14%Memorial Valor Foundation: $3k → 11%SealKids: $3k → 15%AllTru Inc: $3k → 18%The Green Beret Foundation: $2k → 9%Operation Healing Forces Inc: $417 → 13%Military Special Operations Family Collaborative: $3k → 13%Operation Healing Forces Inc: $358 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
OH
CA
CO
WV
VA
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 7 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$65k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEmploymentPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • TH
    THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • AC
    AIR COMMANDO ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • VI
    Various Individual US Military Memb
    one grant, 2023 · $101k
  • VH
    VALOR & HONOR OUTDOORS
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
  • PF
    Parkman Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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
Special Ops Survivors

Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…

Human Services
2
Special Operations Fund

The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…

Education
3
Special Forces Scholarship Fund

The purpose of the special forces scholarship fund (sfsf) is to award merit based post secondary educational scholarships to the daughters and sons of current and veteran special forces soldiers.

Education
4
Coast X Coast Foundation

Our mission is to honor the legacy of fallen us special operations forces by enhancing the quality of life for special ops veterans and their families. (continued on schedule o).

Public Benefit
5
Peaceful Warrior Foundation

The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…

Human Services
6
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
7
Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation
Education
8
Network for Exceptional Military Families
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9
Soldiers of America
Human Services
10
Vetality Corp

Services for veterans

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11
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
12
Special Operations Association Foundation

The Special Operations Association Foundation supports Special Operations veterans and active-duty members, along with their families and survivors. The goals are to support the educational awards program, provide emotional support to…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Catalyst. 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

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
7/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various Individual US Military Memb: $100,718 · OtherVarious Individual US Military MembTask Force Dagger: $9,167 · OtherTask Force DaggerIndividual grant recipient: $5,032 · OtherMilitary Family Building Coalition: $4,692 · Other+8 more: $11,896 · Other+8 moreSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $30,358 · EducationSPECIAL OPERAT…SPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL F…NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAR…THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,250 · PhilanthropyTHE SPECI…AIR COMMANDO ASSOCIATION INC: $7,858 · Public BenefitSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $2,953 · Public BenefitGALLANTFEW INC: $2,935 · Public BenefitMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION: $2,935 · Public Benefit+1 more: $358 · Public BenefitGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $4,476 · Human ServicesSEALKIDS: $2,981 · Human ServicesALLTRU INCORPORATED: $2,967 · Human ServicesMILITARY SPECIAL OPERATIONS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,964 · Human ServicesMEMORIAL VALOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $775 · Human Services+1 more: $358 · Human ServicesTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $9,858 · EmploymentWarriors Ethos Inc: $7,000 · EmploymentVALOR & HONOR OUTDOORS: $9,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$131,505Education$30,358Philanthropy$21,250Public Benefit$17,039Human Services$17,021Employment$16,858Recreation & Sports$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $30,358 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $9,858 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALOR & HONOR OUTDOORS: $9,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAIR COMMANDO ASSOCIATION INC: $7,858 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWarriors Ethos Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $4,476 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: $2,953 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $358 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Catalyst: $358 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $358 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR THE PROMISE: $173 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–15%
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 Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation 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 31 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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