· Private foundation
Homes for Heroes Foundation
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BUILDING A SAFER EVANSVILLE | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BURBANK POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE HOME OF RECORD PROJECT | $5,000 |
| RIGHTEOUS OAKS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OPERATION 22 | $5,000 |
| CASCADES ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| GOTCHA COVERED BLANKETS | $5,000 |
| PATRIOTS AND PAWS | $5,000 |
| THIN BLUE RIDE | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS FIRST RESPONDER CANTEEN | $5,000 |
| OPERATION AT EASE | $5,000 |
| DAKOTA COUNTY HEROES COMMUNITY PARTNER | $5,000 |
| FIRE K 5K INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 24 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- HHHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +89%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2021 · $55k · revenue ×23
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- TMTHE MOAA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +2%
- NFNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -14%
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.
Provide financial support for veterans.
To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…
Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
Raises funds and provides support to military veteran and first responder organizations, focusing on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being
To provide housing opportunities for low income households, to serve the needs of homeless military veterans through case management, advocacy, employment opportunities, temporary and permanent housing to advocate for all military veterans.
The veterans assistance foundation inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation to identify and address the issues faced by veterans and low income persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness throughout our communities.
To promote and fund veteran programs supporting veteran service organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Homefront Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gotcha Covered Blankets. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
102 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 102 of the 149 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 HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MOAA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Running 4 Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healthwell Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds LELS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Million Dollar Teacher Project ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSN OF STATE TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Volunteer Fire Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Veterans Issues Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Nurses Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN ↗
- Who funds Borderland 100 Club ↗
- Who funds TAMPA CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds The Kaufman Fund ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GI FORUM NATIONAL VETERANS OUTREACH PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds BACKING THE BLUE LINE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
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: Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Veterans United Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · Give Back Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · American Gift Fund · Arizona Community 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 Homes for Heroes Foundation 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.
- Changing Homelessness Inc — 84% of income from government
- Easter Seals of Oregon — 77% of income from government
- Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach Inc — 51% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Nurses Foundation — 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.
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