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Heroes for Hope Foundation at a glance

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Heroes for Hope Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$98kInternational$97kEducation$59kPhilanthropy$42kFood & Nutrition$27kReligion$15kHealth$14kCrime & Legal$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $64k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$869k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONVOY OF HOPE$12,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
OUR MILITARY KIDS$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$10,000
FISHER HOUSE$10,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$5,000
OPERATION HELPING HANDS$1,800
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 (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $7k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%OPERATION SHOEBOX: $6k → 16%PATRIOTS AND PAWS: $6k → 10%OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $2k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 11%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

NY
IA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Heroes for Hope Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Heroes for Hope Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 8 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$211k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+20%

Still filing today

88%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyReligionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +112%
  • OM
    OUR MILITARY KIDS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +15%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EVERGREEN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +20%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +22%
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
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
2
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
3
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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4
Soldiers of America
Human Services
5
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
6
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
7
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
8
Helicopters for Heroes
Human Services
9
Operation Adopt a Soldier

Helping wounded soldiers

Public Benefit
10
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
11
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture
12
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE EVERGREEN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE EVERGREEN FOUNDATIONMATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES: $7,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST VETERANS BUSINESS RESOURC: $6,000 · OtherPHOENIX PATRIOT FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherCITY COMPASSION INC: $5,000 · OtherNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $13,000 · OtherNational Law Enforcement and Firefighte…OPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME: $6,000 · OtherMILITARY MISSIONS INC: $6,000 · OtherDogs on Deployment: $6,000 · OtherOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $43,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUN…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $16,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOU…CHILDREN OF FALLEN SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND INC: $6,000 · EducationCHILDREN OF FALLEN…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PU…CONVOY OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · ReligionCONVOY OF HOPE…Words of Comfort Hope and Promise: $6,000 · ReligionWords of Comfo…OUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $42,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILITARY …GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE F…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WAR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AF…OPERATION SHOEBOX USA INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION S…PATRIOTS AND PAWS: $6,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOTS AN…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSoutheaster…OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $1,800 · Human ServicesCONVOY OF HOPE: $22,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF H…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…DIRECT RELIEF: $6,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELI…Mercy Ships International: $5,000 · InternationalMercy Ships…BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Health
Other$139,000Education$65,000Religion$51,500Philanthropy$47,000Human Services$42,300International$41,000Health$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $30,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION SHOEBOX USA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWords of Comfort Hope and Promise: $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPATRIOTS AND PAWS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDogs on Deployment: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMILITARY MISSIONS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN OF FALLEN SOLDIERS RELIEF FUND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HELPING HANDS: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Heroes for Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heroes for Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 33 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home