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Semper Fi & America's Fund

The fund cares for our nation's critically wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans and military families.

$29M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Crime & Legal$1.0MRecreation & Sports$970kPublic Benefit$568kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kHuman Services$50k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $60,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $29,299,709 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,239,709 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USO$50,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%US ARMY MWR PROGRAM: $10k → 16%US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%USO OF ILLINOIS: $15k → 14%AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%FISHER HOUSE: $100k → 8%US ARMY MWR PROGRAM: $10k → 16%AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 7%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%US ARMY MWR PROGRAM: $10k → 16%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%DISABLED SPORTS USA: $100k → 8%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%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

IL
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 6 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$2.5M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+78%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $618k · revenue +24%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +32%
  • AS
    AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • MU
    MOVE UNITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +78%
  • NW
    NAVY WOUNDED WARRIOR PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Uso Foundation

The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.

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2
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
3
Uso (United Service Organizations) of Northern Ohio

The uso strengthens america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.

—
4
Military Officers Association of America

Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…

Public Benefit
5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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6
Society of American Military Engineers

To provide training, education and support to the military and uniformed services and other federal, state and local government agencies responsible for the nation's infrastructure, and to advance collaboration and engagement between…

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Usa Taekwondo Inc

The purpose of usa taekwondo shall be to enable united states athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence in the sport of taekwondo in the united states and to serve as the national governing body for the sport of taekwondo under…

Recreation & Sports
9
Uso of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore Inc

The uso strengthens america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.

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10
United Service Organization Uso of Missouri Inc

The uso strengthens america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.

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11
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
12
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Service Organizations Inc; the most unlike its peers is Air & Space Forces Association. 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 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN- EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,250,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN- EDUCATI…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCUS NAVY WOUNDED WARRIOR-SAFE HARBOR: $95,000 · OtherUS NAVY WOUNDED WARRIOR-SAFE…NAVY WOUNDED WARRIOR PROGRAM: $50,000 · OtherNAVY WOUNDED WARRIOR PROGRAMUS ARMY MWR PROGRAM: $30,000 · Other+3 more: $40,000 · Other+3 moreUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $617,837 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZAT…MOVE UNITED: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Education
Public Safety & Disaster$1,250,000Other$725,000Public Benefit$617,837Recreation & Sports$200,000Education$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN- EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 77% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $617,837 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMOVE UNITED: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Semper Fi & America's Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Semper Fi & America's Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 Semper Fi & America's Fund?

Find your warmest path to Semper Fi & America's Fund 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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