How much does Operation Honor Guard Nfp give?

Operation Honor Guard Nfp reported 10 itemized grants totaling $108,758, out of $265,238 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Operation Honor Guard Nfp fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Public Benefit (27%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).

Who are Operation Honor Guard Nfp's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: East Tennessee Veterans Honor Guard ($135k), Volunteer State War Era Veterans Memoiral Hall of Honor and Honor G ($93k), Tri-County Veterans Honor Guard ($52k).

Does Operation Honor Guard Nfp fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Operation Honor Guard Nfp based?

Operation Honor Guard Nfp is based in IL.

Operation Honor Guard Nfp

Operation Honor Guard Nfp at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

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$265k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

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$345kPublic Benefit$173kPublic Safety & Disaster$92kMembership Benefit$16kRecreation & Sports$8k

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 10 grants below total $108,758, the rows itemized in this filing. The $265,238 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,480 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.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $39k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k

$9,708

Median grant

States reached

$146k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EAST TN VETERAN'S HONOR GUARD	$29,977
TRI-COUNTY HONOR GUARD	$17,085
VOLUNTEER STATE VETERAN'S HONOR GUARD	$12,659
INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN MILITARY HONOR GUARD	$10,000
VFW POST 5266 MORRISTOWN TN HONOR GUARD	$9,708
GREENE COUNTY HONOR GUARD	$6,679
ROANE COUNTY HONOR GUARD	$5,825
LOUDON COUNTY VETERAN'S HONOR GUARD	$5,825
AMERICAN LEGION POST 210	$5,500
MACON COUNTY HONOR GUARD	$5,500

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$576k · 14 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$576k

$46k

Still filing today

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ET
EAST TENNESSEE VETERANS HONOR GUARD
8× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +19% · 34% of their budget
AL
AMERICAN LEGION POST 104
5× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +122%
AL
AMERICAN LEGION POST 210
4× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +99%

Funded once

IB
INTERVETERANS BURIAL DETAIL OF SANGAMON COUNTY
one grant, 2017 · $35k
PF
PIGEON FORGE HONOR GUARD
one grant, 2018 · $6k
CV
COMBINED VETERANS CEREMONIAL TEAM
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Highland County Honor Guard

To honor veterans

Arts & Culture

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us Vfw-Ind Francis Vinyard Post 2749

Fraternal activities for members

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American Legion 1941 Pearl Harbor Post

service To Members and Veterans Memorial

Public Benefit

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

—

United Veterans Burial Association

Honor Guard for deceased Veterans.

Membership Benefit

American Legion Fred a Morgan Post

Support local veterans and the community

—

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us

U.S. Military Veterans Services

—

American Legion Post 1718

Support of patriotic wartime veterans

—

American Legion

Provide military honors at veterans funeral Also provide assistance to veterans in need

Public Benefit

American Legion Post 224

To support our nations military veterans

—

Vernon Hill Post 435 American Legion Fou Foundation (Prev Included Scholarship)

Philanthropy

American Legion Post 348

Local american legion post

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indy Metro Military Honor Guard Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roane County Military Memorial Honor Guard Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

5/8

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$598,733Public Benefit$35,383

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Operation Honor Guard Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Operation Honor Guard Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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