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Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy

The society's primary mission is to strengthen appreciation of the u.s.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$101kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$3kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $15,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,750 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.
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$824k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION$5,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
WINGS OVER AMERICA FOUNDATION$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%SEMPER FI FUND: $500 → 6%NAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS: $1k → 7%NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 9%WINGS OVER AMERICA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $16k → 6%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $525 → 8%SEMPER FI FUND: $500 → 6%NAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS: $1k → 7%NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 9%US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%NAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%NAVY MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $1k → 7%NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 9%US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%NAVY MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $1k → 7%MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%NAVY MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $1k → 7%MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%USNA FOUNDATION: $9k → 6%MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%USNA FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%USNA FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%USNA FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 8 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$110k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+139%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UN
    US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +41%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +28%
  • NC
    NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +139%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $525 · revenue +19%
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
Naval War College Foundation Inc

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…

Education
2
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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3
Marine Corps Association Foundation

To provide resources and support to sustain and expand programs and activities essential to the marine corps association's (mca) mission by engaging everyone inspired by the marine corps.

Arts & Culture
4
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
5
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education
6
Marine Corps Association

The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…

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7
United States Naval Academy Alumni Assoc

To serve and support the united states, the naval service, the naval academy, and its alumni.

Education
8
The Naval Institute Foundation Inc

The naval institute foundation was organized to operate exclusively to raise funds for charitable and educational purposes to further the mission and policies of the united states naval institute.

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9
Dolphin Scholarship Foundation

The dolphin scholarship foundation (dsf) believes that enhancement of both human potential and quality of life is achievable through education. many sons, daughters, and spouses of u.s. navy submariners face financial obstacles while…

Education
10
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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11
Military Officers Association of America Scholarship Fund

Provide interest-free loans and grants for undergraduate education to children of former, active, and retired commissioned or warrant officers of the seven uniformed services, and to children of active or retired enlisted members of the…

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12
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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

11 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.

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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $65,264 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCWINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $3,200 · Public BenefitNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $2,700 · Public BenefitNAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $3,200 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $525 · OtherTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $2,200 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $1,000 · HealthNAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$101,264Public Benefit$5,900Other$3,725Health$3,200Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $65,264 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OVER AMERICA SCHOLARSHIP FDTN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $3,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY20–25
    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.

    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 11 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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