· Public charity
Society of American Military Engineers Orange County Post
To maintain and enhance the relationship between the uniformed military services of the United States of America and the private consulting engineering community to foster the more efficient use of the private sector in support the services' peacetime missions, improve the quality of the service of the private sector, promote the…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $94,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,216 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,216 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp Pendleton ASYMCA | $20,000 |
| Paws 4 Vets | $20,000 |
| SYA Foundation | $15,000 |
| DOD Starbase | $15,000 |
| Hiring Our Heroes | $10,000 |
| CarePossible Inc | $7,000 |
| Patriots and Paws | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- ASARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA3× · 2018–2023 · $45k
- PIPAWS4PEOPLE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue -22%
- SFSYA FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -5%
- EWEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…
Paralyzed veterans of america (pva) was founded by a group of world war ii veterans with spinal cord injuries and disorders in 1947. following decades of dedicated advocacy and service for other similarly situated veterans, pva was…
Provide financial support for veterans.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
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…
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
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…
Help the naval war college to: a. develop strategic and operational leaders: provide professional military education programs that are current, rigorous, relevant, and accessible to the maximum number of qualified u.s. officers and navy…
Hire heroes usa empowers u.s. military members, veterans and military spouses to succeed in the civilian workforce. as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, hire heroes usa's services are provided at no cost to the client.
The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Homefront Inc and the most unlike its peers is Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 PAWS4PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds HIRE OUR HEROES ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds CAREPOSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEABEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS AND PAWS ↗
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: Network for Good · 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 Society of American Military Engineers Orange County Post 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.
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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