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· Public charity
HELP THE VETS INC
The organization ceased operations in october 2017 and instructed fundraisers to cease accepting donations at that time.
$11M
Granted FY2017
7
Grants
5
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$228k
Total assets
Largest grants
- PROJECT VET RELIEF$50,000
- HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION$35,000
- AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,000
- WINTER PARK MEMORIAL POST AMERICAN LEGION$25,000
- UNITED BLOOD SERVICE-VITALANT$20,000
- ONE BLOOD INC$15,000
- AMERICAN LEGION$6,575
02The need
02
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 (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — 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.
1
Amvets American Veterans Department
Public Benefit
2
American Legion
Veterans Advocacy
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3
Amvets (American Veterans)
Provide support for vets/ military that enhance the quality of life for citizens/vets alike.
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4
American Veterans of World War Ii
Amvets' mission is to enhance and safeguard the entitlements for all american veterans who have served honorably and to improve the quality of life for them, their families, and the communities where they live through leadership, advocacy,…
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5
Veterans Collaborative
Veterans Collaborative serves active-duty military service members Veterans and their families.
Public Benefit
6
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
7
Usvets - Arizona
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
Housing & Shelter
8
Disabled American Veterans
Informational services to u.s. military veterans as to how and where to obtain veterans benefits within the government system.
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9
Vets Corps Inc
Human Services
10
Veterans Ancillary Committee
Health
11
American Legion Charities Inc
The American Legion Charities mission is to raise money to help support patriotic programs and services for veterans, youth, military personnel and communities.
Philanthropy
12
Veterans Village
Veterans Village is engaged in developing affordable living communities for the underserved population in the United States, with a primary emphasis on military veterans.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,539
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.
03the grantee network
19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$70,000Public Benefit$50,000Other$31,575Human Services$30,000
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.
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.
THDF II Inc DBAGA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 HELP THE VETS INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: AMERICAN LEGION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 350144250 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 AMERICAN LEGION, 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 15 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% 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.
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How do I get to Help the Vets Inc?
Find your warmest path to Help the Vets Inc 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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