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Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc

The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.

$448k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$21MPublic Benefit$308kHealth$272kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $33,177, the rows itemized in this filing. The $448,180 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $415,003 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$23,177
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMOPH (LADIES MOPH)$23,177
AMERICAN VETERAN CENTER$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC-: $40k → 4%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: $5k → 9%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $15k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $15k → 8%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

VT
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MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
OK
MS
AL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 9 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$22M
$388k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+37%

Still filing today

56%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 BenefitOther
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

  • MO
    MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $18M · revenue -91% · 90% of their budget
  • MD
    MOPH DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M
  • MO
    MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART AUXILIARY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $527k · revenue +26% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • MD
    MOPH Department of Illinois
    one grant, 2017 · $106k
  • PH
    PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -92%
  • VM
    VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -4%
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
Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
2
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service and Rehabilitation Office

To provide assistance to veterans living in michigan.

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3
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

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4
Military Order of the Purple Heart of the Usa Inc Dept of Pa

Support Veterans Veterans group consisting of Purple Heart recipients. Provided support and care for Veterans.

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5
Minnesota Military Order of the Purple Heart

Veterans organization made up of combat wounded veterans to allow members to stay informed of new developments and opportunities.

Membership Benefit
6
Wounded Solders of Republic of Vietnam

Helping the wounded soldiers

Public Benefit
7
Polish Army Veterans Association of America Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
8
Vietnam Helicopters
Arts & Culture
9
Vietnam Veterans of America South Bay Chapter

Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.By the late 1970s, it was clear the established veterans…

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10
Cape Verdean Veterans Memorial Project
Arts & Culture
11
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us Dept of Mt

Service officers for filing and managing va claims. to assist the posts in providing services to members and their families for veterans of foreign wars.

Public Benefit
12
Vietnam Veterans of America #317

Our major purpose is to foster the improvement of the condition of the vietnam era veteran, to promote the social welfare including educational, economic, social, physical and cultural development in the kansas city area..

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Military Order of the Purple Heart; the most unlike its peers is Georgia Veterans Day Associati. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC: $17,592,863 · Public BenefitMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC+1 more: $50,000 · Public BenefitMOPH DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,242,454 · OtherMOPH DEPARTMENT OF PE…MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART AUXILIARY: $526,969 · OtherMILITARY ORDER OF PUR…MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: $490,297 · OtherMILITARY ORDER OF THE…MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA: $271,758 · OtherMILITARY ORDER OF THE…AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $257,500 · OtherAMERICAN STUDIES CENT…+17 more: $416,956 · Other+17 moreVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNational Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Public Benefit$17,642,863Other$4,205,934Human Services$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC: $17,592,863 over 5y, 90% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART AUXILIARY: $526,969 over 6y, 91% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: $490,297 over 6y, 85% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA: $271,758 over 5y, 78% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $257,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetVETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC: $40,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Veterans Day Associati: $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: $6,605 over 1y, 9.0% 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.

  • Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART AUXILIARY ↗
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  • Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS MOVING FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Veterans Day Associati ↗
  • Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART ↗
  • Who funds National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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