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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,360,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARFISH DONATIONS INC$1,360,000
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 (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 its 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
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

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 29 repeat orgs$650k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

+55%
+0%

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
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

  • 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%
  • CA
    CA ANG CHIEFS FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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.

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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
47/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCONDOR SQUADRON OFFICERS & AIRMENS: $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 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 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 budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 budgetUSO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO: $105,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetELK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH & PERFORMANCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 23% 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 budgetHALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetVietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONDOR SQUADRON OFFICERS & AIRMENS: $25,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon River Runners Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMCRD MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST MARINE DIVISION ASSOCIATION LOS ANGELES COUNTY CHAPTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMT SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE THE BRAVE: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE HEROES PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSEALKIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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 57 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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