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Robert Irvine Foundation Inc

The robert irvine foundation is a not-for-profit entity and is tax exempt under 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code (irc).

$759k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$75k
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 2024.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$360kAnimals$333kHealth$240kPublic Benefit$161kFood & Nutrition$134kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kHousing & Shelter$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $391,257, the rows itemized in this filing. The $759,353 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $368,096 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $301k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWS4PEOPLE INC$75,000
OLD GLORY HONOR FLIGHT INC$30,000
ALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION$27,000
MARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
HERO PUPS INC$25,000
IRONSTONE FARM$25,000
AMERICAN VETERANS CENTER$22,500
SERVICE IMPACT FOUNDATION$20,000
ERIE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$20,000
LIBERTY HOUSE$20,000
HOMELAND HEROES FOUNDATION$15,000
VETERANS NORTHEAST OUTREACH$15,000
PATRIOT RESILIENT LEADER INSTITUTE$13,500
CHOW CORP$13,000
BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$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 (FY18–24, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FREEDOM MOBILITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%CAMP RESILIENCE: $10k → 10%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $75k → 12%ALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION: $27k → 4%LIBERTY HOUSE: $26k → 7%VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $12k → 9%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $75k → 12%ALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION: $15k → 4%LIBERTY HOUSE: $25k → 7%VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $8k → 9%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $50k → 12%ALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%LIBERTY HOUSE: $20k → 7%VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $7k → 9%ALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%LIBERTY HOUSE: $20k → 7%VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $6k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NH: $25k → 7%BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%MILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK: $30k → 7%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

ME
NH
WI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 25 repeat orgs$804k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
23

Total granted

$1.8M
$689k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationPhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TA
    TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +28%
  • ES
    Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $125k · revenue +33%
  • TH
    THE HOMELAND HEROES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +221%
  • NS
    NAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +11%
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +14%
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
National Veterans Foundation Inc

To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.

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2
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
3
Warrior Built Foundation Inc

Organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes for combat veterans to provide motivation, camaraderie, and to offer a release to cope with similar difficulties in a positive and therapeutic way. Providing safe, fun, and…

Health
4
Patriot Military Family Foundation

The Organization generates revenue and donates the proceeds to support service-disabled veterans and their families

Public Benefit
5
American Military Family Inc

American military family (amf) provides veterans and their families with assistance, whether it be emotional, physical, mental, or finanical, for their missing, suicidal, displaced or struggling hero.

Public Benefit
6
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
7
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services
8
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture
9
Veterans Afield Foundation

To provide services for veterans.

Recreation & Sports
10
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
11
Canines for Service Inc

CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.

Human Services
12
Veterans Navigation Network

Transition for service members.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Service Credit Union Impact Foundation. 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

48 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. 48 of the 55 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesPAWS4PEOPLE INCLIBERTY HOUSE: $90,866 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSEALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesALLIED FORCES FOUNDAT…VOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $32,814 · Human ServicesVOUCHERS FOR VETERANSMILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesMILITARY FAMILY ADVIS…New Hampshire Catholic Charities: $25,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING DREAMS FOR MARINES INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $32,463 · Human Services+3 moreUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC: $156,133 · OtherUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BA…AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $62,500 · OtherAMERICAN STUDIES CENTERFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $60,867 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCMARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherMARINE CORPS COMMUNITY SERVICESVeterans Northeast Outreach Center Inc: $47,578 · OtherVeterans Northeast Outreach Cente…Friends of Firefighters Inc: $65,000 · OtherFriends of Firefighters IncErie Police Athletic League: $40,000 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $53,630 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INCOUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC: $40,000 · OtherHONOR FLIGHT NEW ENGLAND INC: $41,000 · Other+12 more: $152,500 · Other+12 moreSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIO…NAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationNAVY SUPPLY CORP…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR F…SERVICE CREDIT UNION IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE HOMELAND HEROES FOUNDATION: $115,866 · Public BenefitTHE HOMELAND HE…WARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Public BenefitWARRIOR REUNION…VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $50,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUN…MISSIONS OF HONOR INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitMISSIONS OF HON…TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public BenefitTRAVIS MILLS FO…PATRIOT RESILIENT LEADER INSTITUTE: $23,500 · Public BenefitPATRIOT RESILIE…WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitWOMEN IN MILITA…CHOW CORP: $13,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $150,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSIS…Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $125,000 · HealthEaster Seals …CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthCONCUSSION LE…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $107,500 · PhilanthropyIM ABLE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEW ENGLAND PGA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyVALOR SERVICE DOGS INC: $70,000 · AnimalsHERO PUPS INC: $56,000 · Animals
Human Services$493,143Other$769,208Education$380,000Public Benefit$367,366Health$305,000Philanthropy$180,000Animals$126,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPAWS4PEOPLE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetUSO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC: $156,133 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOMELAND HEROES FOUNDATION: $115,866 over 5y, 10% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $107,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE: $90,866 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWARRIOR REUNION FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetVALOR SERVICE DOGS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFriends of Firefighters Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER: $62,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALLIED FORCES FOUNDATION INC: $62,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $60,867 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHERO PUPS INC: $56,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $53,630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Northeast Outreach Center Inc: $47,578 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT NEW ENGLAND INC: $41,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetErie Police Athletic League: $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetIM ABLE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetVOUCHERS FOR VETERANS: $32,814 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetMILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMISSIONS OF HONOR INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATRIOT RESILIENT LEADER INSTITUTE: $23,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSERVICE CREDIT UNION IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBUILDING DREAMS FOR MARINES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHOW CORP: $13,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFREEDOM MOBILITY FOUNDATION: $12,463 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNam-Pows Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFort Worth Airpower Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Resilient Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetBULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS CORRAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHousing Support Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PGA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Swimming With a Missi…Gary Sinise FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Veterans United Found…Amica Companies Found…Duke Energy FoundationVerizon FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Edward Jones Foundati…Network for GoodEnterprise Holdings F…
Swimming With a Mission IncNH17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Swimming With a Mission Inc · Gary Sinise Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Liberty House: 23% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
8report 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.
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How do I get to Robert Irvine Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert Irvine Foundation Inc 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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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