· Public charity
Shootout for Soldiers Inc
To educate people about the struggles that veterans face, engaging them with local community members and fundraising to support their needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $56,684 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $81,939 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,255 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LI AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION | $8,121 |
| JOSEPH THEINERT MEMORIAL FUND | $8,121 |
| ARMY RANGER LEAD THE WAY FUND | $8,121 |
| WARRIOR RANCH FOUNDATION INC | $8,121 |
| BALTIMORE STATION | $6,222 |
| VETLINKS | $6,222 |
| BLUE STAR MOTHERS | $5,878 |
| HONOR FLIGHT ROCHESTER | $5,878 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC3× · 2017–2020 · $321k · revenue +44%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $273k · revenue +196%- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND2× · 2017–2018 · $233k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SFSEMPER FI FUNDone grant, 2020 · $40k
- HSHEAD STRONG PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +95%
- HFHope For The Warriorsone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide financial support for veterans.
WORKING TO HELP REDUCE VETERAN SUICIDE We are currently serving 55 local veterans and a growiing number from the country.
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To empower and support veterans.
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…
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Red White & Blue Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Baltimore Station Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LEAD THE WAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH J THEINERT MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Baltimore Station Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE OF ONTARIO COUNTY BLUE STAR MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VETLINKSORG ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Overwatch Partnership ↗
- Who funds MASH and Resource Center ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR RANCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DELTA DOG INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Shootout for Soldiers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Baltimore Station Inc — 11% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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