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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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$400kHealth$273kPublic Safety & Disaster$226kPublic Benefit$155kEducation$120kHousing & Shelter$115kPhilanthropy$58kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RIGHTEOUS OAKS FOUNDATION$5,000
PATRIOTS AND PAWS$5,000
ST LOUIS FIRST RESPONDER CANTEEN$5,000
DAKOTA COUNTY HEROES COMMUNITY PARTNER$5,000
APS FOUNDATION$5,000
THE HOME OF RECORD PROJECT$5,000
OPERATION 22$5,000
OPERATION AT EASE$5,000
NEW MEXICO NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN NURSES$5,000
ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES$5,000
HOLLYWOOD VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
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.
$396k · 12 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

+89%
+14%

Still filing today

92%
66%

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 BenefitHealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HH
    HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +89%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $55k · revenue ×23
  • OH
    OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MOAA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • HF
    Healthwell Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • FC
    FIREFIGHTERS CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Homefront Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
53/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIREFIGHTERS CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $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…BUILDING A SAFER EVANSVILLE INC: $10,000 · HealthBUILDING A SAF…Invisible Wounds Project Inc: $10,000 · HealthInvisible Woun…ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · HealthADOPT A VET DE…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…BACKING THE BLUE LINE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBACKING THE BL…The Kaufman Fund: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Kaufman Fu…LITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE PATRIOT…LYNCHBURG AREA VETERANS COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLYNCHBURG AREA…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST …CHANGING HOMELESSNESS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHANGING HOMEL…+10 more: $50,000 · Human Services+10 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationPENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT NURSES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCascades Academy of Central Oregon: $5,000 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $5,000 · EducationCanyons School District Education Foundation: $5,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $5,000 · EducationMillion Dollar Teacher Project: $15,000 · EmploymentTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION CHARITIES: $10,000 · EmploymentMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $10,000 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $10,000 · EmploymentGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBorderland 100 Club: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN NURSES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$636,750Public Benefit$280,000Health$187,000Human Services$185,000Education$110,000Employment$45,000Philanthropy$45,000

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 budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 budgetHealthwell Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLELS POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSN OF STATE TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMillion Dollar Teacher Project: $15,000 over 2y, 17% 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 budgetAMERICAN GI FORUM NATIONAL VETERANS OUTREACH PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION CHARITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBACKING THE BLUE LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCAPE COD VETERANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTAMPA CROSSROADS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING A SAFER EVANSVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGEORGIA POLICE K-9 FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNO BARRIERS USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARIZONA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNURSES HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENDERGAST ELEMENTARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY ENDEAVORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kaufman Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE PATRIOTS EMBRACED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBorderland 100 Club: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetANGELS OF AMERICA'S FALLEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNineLine Veteran Services: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVETERANS TRANSITION CENTER OF CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInvisible Wounds Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF OREGON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG AREA VETERANS COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNC FALLEN FIREFIGHTER'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Bob Woodruff Family F…THDF II Inc DBA The H…Veterans United Found…Enterprise Holdings F…The Zions Bancorporat…Give Back FoundationBnsf Railway Foundati…AbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Richard M Schulze…American Gift FundArizona Community Fou…
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

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 Homes for Heroes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homes for Heroes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • 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
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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 149 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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