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Land of the Free Foundation

The corporation is committed to celebrating the men and women of the armed forces, past, present, and future.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$2.6MEducation$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$615kPublic Benefit$305kMembership Benefit$270kRecreation & Sports$90kCrime & Legal$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,360,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARFISH DONATIONS INC$1,360,000
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 (FY17–20, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $30k → 16%OPERATION HEALING FORCE: $20k → 12%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%HALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%OPERATION HEALING FORCE: $15k → 12%SEALKIDS INC: $10k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $100k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $50k → 11%US VETS INITIATIVE: $100k → 14%US VETS INITIATIVE: $25k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $20k → 14%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

ID
NY
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
HI
MS
TX
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.0M · 29 repeat orgs$650k 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 +3% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
25

Total granted

$6.0M
$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+3%

Still filing today

86%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +17%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $290k · revenue +56%
  • TA
    TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $240k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • UM
    USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • TD
    THE DISC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -86%
  • TF
    Task Force Dagger Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue 0%

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Naval War College Foundation Inc

Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…

Education
3
Marine Corps Association

The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…

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4
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
5
Marine Corps Association Foundation

To provide resources and support to sustain and expand programs and activities essential to the marine corps association's (mca) mission by engaging everyone inspired by the marine corps.

Arts & Culture
6
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
7
Military Officers Association of America

Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…

Public Benefit
8
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
9
Cna Corporation

Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…

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10
Marines' Memorial Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to honor the legacy of military service through its programs and by its direct support of the marines' memorial association in fulfilling its mission to commemorate the sacrifices of our nation's veterans,…

Arts & Culture
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
The Honor Foundation Inc

Assists u.s. special operation forces transition from active duty military to private sector careers.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Condor Squadron Officers & Airmens. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesCommunity Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity Foundations
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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%38%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 38% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,908

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

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STARFISH DONATIONS INC — $2,485,000 · OtherSTARFISH DONATIONS INCMARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $270,000 · OtherMARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION+13 more — $522,500 · Other+13 moreOAKLAND MILITARY INSTITUTE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $275,000 · EducationOAKLAND MILITARY INSTI…US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUND…MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSH…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATI…MARINE CORPS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS UNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $110,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN…ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY — $100,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF GRADUAT…THE DISC FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationTHE DISC FOUNDATION+6 more — $132,500 · Education+6 moreSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $290,000 · HealthSEMPER FI…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $240,000 · HealthTRAGEDY A…ELK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH & PERFORMANCE INC — $35,000 · HealthELK INSTI…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Symphony — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCONDOR SQUADRON OFFICERS & AIRMENS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $150,000 · Public BenefitCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America — $130,000 · Public BenefitASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY — $105,000 · Public BenefitDANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP — $50,000 · Public BenefitMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Public BenefitSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $30,000 · Public BenefitCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $145,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesHALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST — $225,000 · PhilanthropyTask Force Dagger Foundation — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,277,500Education$1,337,500Health$565,000Arts & Culture$510,000Public Benefit$505,000Human Services$415,000Philanthropy$275,000

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 budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $290,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOAKLAND MILITARY INSTITUTE COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $275,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $270,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC — $240,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST — $225,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE — $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America — $130,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY — $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUSO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO — $105,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUSS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DISC FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSHAKESPEARE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES — $85,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTask Force Dagger Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDANA POINT 5TH MARINE REGIMENT SUPPORT GROUP — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCounsel for Justice — $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetELK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH & PERFORMANCE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Symphony — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA CAPITAL SMALL BUSINESS FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONDOR SQUADRON OFFICERS & AIRMENS — $25,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGrand Canyon River Runners Association Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTDOOR BUDDIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSAVE THE BRAVE — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE HEROES PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEALKIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Mark E Bryant Charita…Sempra FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…California Foundation…The Northrop Grumman …California Community …Enterprise Holdings F…Duke Energy FoundationT Rowe Price Program …Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Mark E Bryant Charitable TrustFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mark E Bryant Charitable Trust · Sempra Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · California Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Land of the Free 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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
    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: 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.

    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 57 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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