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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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$400kHealth$273kPublic Safety & Disaster$226kPublic Benefit$155kEducation$120kHousing & Shelter$115kPhilanthropy$58kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

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
$5,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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.

area typical 10%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $5k → 11%PATRIOTS AND PAWS: $5k → 10%HOUSTON PROFESIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDAITON: $5k → 16%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $5k → 10%INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%RUNNING 4 HEROES: $20k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC DBA SVDP CARES: $10k → 12%CHANGING HOMELESSNESS INC: $10k → 14%LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED: $10k → 9%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%HEROES WILDLIFE ADVENTURES: $5k → 9%LYNCHBURG AREA VETERANS COUNCIL: $10k → 20%LELS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $15k → 11%THE KAUFMAN FUND: $10k → 11%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $5k → 14%HERO DOGS INC: $5k → 8%LELS BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $5k → 11%BACKING THE BLUE LINE: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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CO
MO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$396k · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
111

Total granted

$396k
$948k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic BenefitHealthEducationPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

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

  • HH
    HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +89%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $55k · revenue ×23
  • VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MOAA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • NF
    NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION
    one 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.

04Your 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
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
2
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
3
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
4
National Veterans Foundation Inc

To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.

5
Usvets - Texas

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Human Services
6
For Veterans Sake Foundation

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…

Health
7
Vietnam Veterans of America Alaska

Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.

8
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

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…

Human Services
9
American Heroes Foundation

Raises funds and provides support to military veteran and first responder organizations, focusing on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being

Human Services
10
Veterans & Community Housing Coalition

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Veterans Assistance Foundation Inc

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.

Public Benefit
12
Veterans Foundation of Illinois Inc

To promote and fund veteran programs supporting veteran service organizations.

Human Services

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …School District FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/107
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,458

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172026, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/102
Grantees still filing
52/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherFIREFIGHTERS CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION DISASTER RELIEF FUND — $22,500 · Other+80 more — $564,250 · Other+80 moreSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS — $100,000 · Public BenefitSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATIO…THE MOAA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE MOAA FOUNDATIONBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitBLUE STAR FAMILIES IN…VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PR…CAPE COD VETERANS INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY — $10,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · Public BenefitARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF — $10,000 · Public Benefit+9 more — $45,000 · Public Benefit+9 moreHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALT…Healthwell Foundation — $25,000 · HealthHealthwell Fou…ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · HealthADOPT A VET DE…BUILDING A SAFER EVANSVILLE INC — $10,000 · HealthBUILDING A SAF…Invisible Wounds Project Inc — $10,000 · HealthInvisible Woun…CENTER FOR MISSOURI NURSES — $7,000 · Health+5 more — $25,000 · Health+5 moreRunning 4 Heroes Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesRunning 4 Hero…INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL …LELS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLELS POLICE BE…The Kaufman Fund — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Kaufman Fu…BACKING THE BLUE LINE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBACKING THE BL…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST …LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE PATRIOT…LYNCHBURG AREA VETERANS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLYNCHBURG AREA…CHANGING HOMELESSNESS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHANGING HOMEL…+10 more — $50,000 · Human Services+10 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationPENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $5,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT NURSES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC — $5,000 · EducationCascades Academy of Central Oregon — $5,000 · EducationCanyons School District Education Foundation — $5,000 · EducationMillion Dollar Teacher Project — $15,000 · EmploymentMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $10,000 · EmploymentTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION CHARITIES — $10,000 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $10,000 · EmploymentGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyBorderland 100 Club — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN NURSES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion Foundation — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$636,750Public Benefit$280,000Health$187,000Human Services$185,000Education$110,000Employment$45,000Philanthropy$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOAA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRunning 4 Heroes Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHealthwell Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLELS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMillion Dollar Teacher Project — $15,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN ASSN OF STATE TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Volunteer Fire Council Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Veterans Issues Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Nurses Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBorderland 100 Club — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTAMPA CROSSROADS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPE COD VETERANS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetThe Kaufman Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN GI FORUM NATIONAL VETERANS OUTREACH PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKING THE BLUE LINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION CHARITIES — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNURSES HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNC FALLEN FIREFIGHTER'S FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBUILDING A SAFER EVANSVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFAMILY ENDEAVORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNCHBURG AREA VETERANS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Bob Woodruff Family Foundation IncNY25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 51%
  • Changing Homelessness Inc84% of income from government
  • Easter Seals of Oregon77% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach Inc51% of income from government
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation24% of income from government
  • Connecticut Nurses Foundation4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Homes for Heroes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Homes for Heroes Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 149 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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