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Serve and Succeed Charitable Foundation

Sscf promotes and encourages students to continue their studies in the fields of science and technology as well as supporting us military veterans transitioning to civilian life.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$105kRecreation & Sports$80kHealth$30kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $24,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,147 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,147 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.
$14,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF VETERANS$14,000
OPERATION HAT TRICK$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 (FY20–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OPERATION HAT TRICK: $30k → 5%TWIN STATE MAKER SPACES INC: $15k → 10%TWINSTATE MAKERSPACES INC: $15k → 10%OPERATION HAT TRICK (OHT): $30k → 5%OPERATION HAT TRICK (OHT): $20k → 5%OPERATION HAT TRICK (OHT): $10k → 5%OPERATION HAT TRICK: $10k → 5%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$189k · 3 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$189k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • OH
    OPERATION HAT TRICK INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue -26%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF VETERANS
    3× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +100%
  • TM
    TWINSTATE MAKERSPACES INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -25%
  • NV
    Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +249%
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · 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
Veterans United Foundation

Inspired, created and substanially funded by veterans united home loans employees, veterans united foundation exists to enhance lives. fueled by passion, generosity and an unwavering commitment to give, the foundation is dedicated to…

Philanthropy
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
3
Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Our promise is to commit 100 percent of gross fundraising dollars to breast cancer research. The Foundation awards grants to researchers in pre-clinical and clinical research who are investigating breast cancer cures and improved…

Health
4
Und Center for Innovation Foundation

To maintain national leadership in entrepreneur outreach and education, and become the leader in tech entrepreneurship in rural America.

Community Improvement
5
Helping Heroes Inc

Helping Heroes provides support services and resources to homeless and near homeless veterans, in order to transition them to, or maintain self-sufficiency. The goal is reintegration into society as men and women who currently feel…

Human Services
6
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
7
Vermont National Guard Charitable Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to provide goods, services and funds for the support of members and families within the national guard.

Human Services
8
Trust for Housing

The Trust for Community Housing preserves our community through increasing regional housing opportunities. Through collaboration with others, the non-profit Trust expands resources available for housing, helping to secure a diverse and…

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9
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
10
Veterans Collaborative

Veterans Collaborative serves active-duty military service members Veterans and their families.

Public Benefit
11
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
12
Jens Friends Cancer Foundation

To Provide supplemental financial assistance and other resources to cancer patients and their families in the Mount Washington Valley

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newby-Ginnings of North Idaho Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION HAT TRICK INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HAT TRICK INCTWINSTATE MAKERSPACES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTWINSTATE MAKERSPACES INCFRIENDS OF VETERANS: $59,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF VETERANSNEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitNEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER…TWU COUNSELING CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthTWU COUNSELI…Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $20,000 · OtherNorthern V…ICE VETS ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $5,000 · OtherICE VETS A…UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$130,000Public Benefit$64,000Health$30,000Other$25,000Education$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetOPERATION HAT TRICK INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF VETERANS: $59,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTWINSTATE MAKERSPACES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWU COUNSELING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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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 Serve and Succeed Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Serve and Succeed Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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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    How do I get to Serve and Succeed Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Serve and Succeed Charitable 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 10 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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