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Proffitt Brothers Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Human Services$61kHousing & Shelter$37kHealth$33kAnimals$25kRecreation & Sports$23kEducation$9kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOR 3 SISTERS$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD: $42k → 6%VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD: $5k → 6%VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT: $3k → 6%VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD: $3k → 6%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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 33% of Proffitt Brothers Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Proffitt Brothers Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$165k · 6 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$165k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
-4%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • F3
    FOR 3 SISTERS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +4%
  • LD
    LOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +3%
  • AF
    AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • LUKE'S WINGS
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -22%
  • 7B
    7 BENEFIT LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -103%

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.

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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
2
Warriors Suicide Prevention Foundation

Founded by veterans dedicated to prevention of veteran suicides provided support to other veterans organizations including ptsd trained dogs

Human Services
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Vets With Wings
Public Benefit
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Service Dogs Saving Lives Inc

Our mission is to reduce the devastating impact of suicide by raising funds to provide highly trained service dogs for veterans and first responders with prior suicidal ideation as identified by our partner training schools.

Health
5
Raider Sailing Foundation

To empower combat veterans through transformative experiences that rekindle the camaraderie and purpose found in close-knit teams. through dynamic sailing adventures, we facilitate the reintegration of teams of veterans into a supportive…

Public Benefit
6
Warfighter Outfitters

Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…

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For Veterans Sake Foundation

For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…

Health
8
Vetlinksorg

Vetlinks.org educates and empowers veterans and their families by linking them toservices, support, and programs in order to enrich their quality of life. we walkveterans through the process of submitting paperwork to the va, connecting…

Public Benefit
9
Deep Sea Valkyries Inc

Deep Sea Valkyries' mission is to enhance the lives of Veterans through the treatment of PTSD while introducing them to healthy recreation

Public Benefit
10
Last Ride Inc

Helping Active Duty, Veterans, and

Human Services
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Project Valor Sailing
Recreation & Sports
12
Operation Red Wings Foundation

Operation red wings foundation (orwf) (formerly: lone survivor foundation) is a nonprofit organization which seeks to restore, empower, and renew hope for our wounded service members and their families through health, wellness, and…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is K9S for Warriors Inc and the most unlike its peers is 7 Benefit Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD — $51,697 · Human ServicesVALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTDFOR 3 SISTERS INC — $22,612 · HealthFOR 3 SISTERS INCTHE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDA…LUKE'S WINGS — $9,000 · HealthLUKE'S WINGSIndividual grant recipient — $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient — $1,600 · OtherLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · AnimalsLOST DOG RESCU…K9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $5,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIO…LIVE WATER CO — $23,000 · Recreation & SportsLIVE WATER COAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $11,000 · PhilanthropyAIR FORCE…7 BENEFIT LTD — $6,000 · Philanthropy7 BENEFIT…
Human Services$51,697Health$41,612Other$38,600Animals$25,000Recreation & Sports$23,000Philanthropy$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALHALLA SAILING PROJECT LTD — $51,697 over 4y, 42% of budgetLIVE WATER CO — $23,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFOR 3 SISTERS INC — $22,612 over 4y, 10% of budgetLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEREK SHEELY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget7 BENEFIT LTD — $6,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Proffitt Brothers 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of 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 · 0–10%
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 11 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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