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Spookstock Foundation

SPOOKSTOCK FOUNDATION seeks the flourishing of shadow warriors and their families.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$688k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.8MHealth$1.5MCrime & Legal$1.4MHuman Services$725kPublic Benefit$175k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $790k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$110,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$806k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATOR RELIEF FUND$687,830
SPECIAL OPS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$400,000
STATION FOUNDATION$180,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$150,000
CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$110,000
NO GREATER SACRIFICE FOUNDATION$100,000
DONOVAN AND BANK FOUNDATION$100,000
ALL SECURE FOUNDATION$100,000
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY23–24, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALL SECURE FOUNDATION: $175k → 11%AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP: $300k → 18%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $150k → 6%ALL SECURE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%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

MT
PA
MO
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.
$5.9M · 7 repeat orgs$640k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$5.9M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +265%
  • CO
    CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +188%
  • DI
    DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +362% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • AW
    AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +3%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Special Ops Survivors

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…

Human Services
2
Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit
3
Special Operations Fund

The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…

Education
4
Peaceful Warrior Foundation

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…

Human Services
5
Coast X Coast Foundation

Our mission is to honor the legacy of fallen us special operations forces by enhancing the quality of life for special ops veterans and their families. (continued on schedule o).

Public Benefit
6
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
7
Network for Exceptional Military Families
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8
Bennie Adkins Foundation

Scholarships for special forces soldiers transitioning from military to civilian life.

Philanthropy
9
The Honor Foundation Inc

Assists u.s. special operation forces transition from active duty military to private sector careers.

Employment
10
Operator Foundation Inc

The Operator Foundation provides monetary assistance to active duty and former members of select US Special Operations units. To be eligible, the member must be an operator or direct squadron support personnel. Dependent children area also…

Education
11
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

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…

Health
12
Quick Reaction Foundation

Quick reaction foundation (qrf) is a non-profit organization founded by veterans to provide rapid response to the developing needs of elite operators and their families from within select u.s. special operations command ("ussocom") teams.…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation; the most unlike its peers is All Secure Foundation 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $2,225,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATIONDEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EducationDEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONOPERATOR RELIEF FUND INC: $1,307,830 · HealthOPERATOR RELIEF FUND INCTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $180,000 · HealthTHE STATION FOUNDATIONCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,362,000 · Crime & LegalCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL F…AMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesAMERICA'S WA…ALL SECURE FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesALL SECURE F…THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD OPTION…No Greater Sacrifice Foundation: $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE DONOVAN & BANK FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Public BenefitPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Other
Education$2,575,000Health$1,487,830Crime & Legal$1,362,000Human Services$725,000Public Benefit$375,000Other$10,000

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 budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $2,225,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,362,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetOPERATOR RELIEF FUND INC: $1,307,830 over 2y, 50% of budgetDEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 4y, 91% of budgetAMERICA'S WARRIOR PARTNERSHIP INC: $300,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetALL SECURE FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNo Greater Sacrifice Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE STATION FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE DONOVAN & BANK FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC11.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Spookstock Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Spookstock 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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