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Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation

The mission of the PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS FOUNDATION (pvf) is to provide assistance and support to pennsylvania veterans and their families.

$246k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2019.

Health$590kHousing & Shelter$188kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$10kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $210,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,373 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,373 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 · FY2019

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHAMROCK REINS$100,000
FLY HIGH WITH HORSES$30,000
VICTORY THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP$25,000
DAVID'S DRIVE 831 INC$15,000
EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES$10,000
VETERANS HELPING HAND$10,000
VETERANS BROTHERHOOD$10,000
GUARDIANS NEST$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 (FY17–19, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DAVIDS DRIVE 831: $25k → 6%DAVIDS DRIVE 831: $20k → 6%DAVID'S DRIVE 831 INC: $15k → 6%YORK COUNTY VETERANS AFFAIRS: $10k → 9%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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 8 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$560k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-10%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Public BenefitAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SR
    SHAMROCK REINS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +24% · 27% of their budget
  • VH
    VETERAN'S HELPING HAND INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +237% · 34% of their budget
  • ES
    EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • RF
    RACING FOR HEROES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +4% · 25% of their budget
  • CH
    Canyon Heroes
    one grant, 2017 · $37k
  • TC
    TENFOLD COMMUNITY LENDING
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -53%
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
Trek for Hero Causes Inc

Horse therapy for heroes

Health
2
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
3
War Horses for Veterans Inc
Health
4
Horses Heroes and Hope Inc

Our mission is to provide equine-assisted therapy to veterans, first responders and active duty military.

Human Services
5
Saddles for Soldiers Inc

Ptsd & physical therapy for vet and first responders

Human Services
6
Hope4vets
Housing & Shelter
7
At Liberty Connections
Health
8
Equus Rescue and Therapy Inc

Rescue rehabilitation recovery of equine mammals

Animals
9
Mustang Journey

Providing healing opportunities for wild Mustangs and Veterans. Includes horse taming and training and various programs designed to support veterans.

Health
10
Veteran Overwatch Foundation Inc

Suppotring veterans in western pennsylvania navigating homelessness, PTSD, substance use disorder so they can thrive in their community

Public Benefit
11
Triple Bravo Initaive

To empower and support veterans.

Public Benefit
12
Heroes and Horses Inc

Heroes and horses 501(c)3 is a unique and stand-alone program for combat veterans that uses the horse/human connection, horse packing in the remote wilderness, wellness approaches, traditional practices, nutrition, fitness, and various…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Therapeutic Horsemanship; the most unlike its peers is Equiteam Support Services. 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 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. 15 of the 20 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHAMROCK REINS: $150,000 · Public BenefitSHAMROCK REINSVETERAN'S HELPING HAND INC: $65,000 · Public BenefitVETERAN'S HELPING HAND INCVETERANS BROTHERHOOD: $15,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS BROTHERHOODMISSION HOMESTEAD: $15,000 · Public BenefitMISSION HOMESTEADHUNTS FOR HEALING INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitVICTORY THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $155,000 · AnimalsVICTORY THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANS…DOG TAGS: $60,000 · AnimalsDOG TAGSCanyon Heroes: $37,200 · OtherCanyon HeroesTRAILS END CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · OtherTRAILS END CONSERVAN…HOPE ON HORSEBACK: $25,000 · OtherHOPE ON HORSEBACKTREES TRAILS SPRINGS & THINGS: $25,000 · OtherTREES TRAILS SPRINGS…PLAYERS USING COMPETITION HELPING OTHER GROW INC: $15,000 · OtherPLAYERS USING COMPET…GUARDIANS NEST: $10,000 · OtherGUARDIANS NESTUNION MISSION OF LATROBE INC: $7,500 · OtherRACING FOR HEROES INC: $53,000 · HealthRACING FOR …EQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $30,000 · HealthEQUITEAM SU…DAVIDS DRIVE 831 INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesDAVIDS DRIV…THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDAT…YORK COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY…TENFOLD COMMUNITY LENDING: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Public Benefit$255,000Animals$215,000Other$149,700Health$83,000Human Services$80,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVICTORY THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $155,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetSHAMROCK REINS: $150,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetVETERAN'S HELPING HAND INC: $65,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetDAVIDS DRIVE 831 INC: $60,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetDOG TAGS: $60,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRACING FOR HEROES INC: $53,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTENFOLD COMMUNITY LENDING: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEQUITEAM SUPPORT SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHOPE ON HORSEBACK: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVETERANS BROTHERHOOD: $15,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHUNTS FOR HEALING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION MISSION OF LATROBE INC: $7,500 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.

The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Pennsylvania Veterans Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $312k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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