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Navy Seal Foundation Inc

The navy seal foundation provides critical support for the warriors, veterans, and families of naval special warfare.

$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Employment$5.0MHuman Services$4.3MArts & Culture$1.9MEducation$445kHealth$390kPhilanthropy$25kAnimals$20k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $2,699,996 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,096,390 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,396,394 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
$250,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$168M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME BASE$900,000
THE HONOR FOUNDATION$699,996
UDT-SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$600,000
NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION$250,000
SEALKIDS INC$125,000
GRATITUDE INITIATIVE$75,000
WARRIOR FOR LIFE$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SEALKIDS INC: $650k → 9%AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 18%SEALKIDS INC: $500k → 9%SEALKIDS INC: $500k → 9%SEALKIDS INC: $400k → 9%SEALKIDS INC: $375k → 9%SEALKIDS INC: $350k → 9%SEALKIDS INC: $300k → 9%SEALKIDS INC: $125k → 9%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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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 8 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +183% since the first grant, against +114% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$11M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+183%
+114%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TH
    THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +347% · 34% of their budget
  • US
    UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +219%
  • TG
    THE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $115k · revenue +229%
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • HS
    HUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +114%

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
Peaceful Warrior Foundation

The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…

Human Services
2
Quick Reaction Foundation

Quick reaction foundation (qrf) is a non-profit organization founded by veterans to provide rapid response to the developing needs of elite operators and their families from within select u.s. special operations command ("ussocom") teams.…

Public Benefit
3
Warfighter Scuba

To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…

Public Benefit
4
Special Ops Survivors

Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…

Human Services
5
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
6
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
7
Frontline to Field Foundation

Frontline to field is a nonprofit organization founded from the hearts of two individuals deeply committed to the well-being of those who serve and sacrifice for others. inspired by their personal connections to the military, first…

Recreation & Sports
8
Military Wellness Initiative
Public Benefit
9
Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit
10
Lead the Way Fund Inc

Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…

Human Services
11
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
12
Special Operations Fund

The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 19 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $4,981,555 · EmploymentTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INCSEALKIDS — $3,200,000 · Human ServicesSEALKIDS+1 more — $50,000 · Human ServicesUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $1,170,000 · OtherUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASS…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $900,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM …THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Other+5 more — $150,000 · Other+5 moreNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $750,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE — $325,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $115,100 · EducationTHE STATION FOUNDATION — $125,000 · HealthHUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCOHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC — $40,000 · HealthWARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND — $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Employment$4,981,555Human Services$3,250,000Other$2,320,000Arts & Culture$750,000Education$440,100Health$265,000Recreation & Sports$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $4,981,555 over 7y, 34% of budgetSEALKIDS — $3,200,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $1,170,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE — $325,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $115,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWarrior Dog Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Navy Seal Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 19 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.

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