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Tech Sgt Jack Kushner Ret'D Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$645k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.0MPublic Benefit$353kPhilanthropy$339kCommunity Improvement$325kHealth$225kEducation$168kHousing & Shelter$165kArts & Culture$128kEnvironment$75kOther$424k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE PARKING LA$100,000
VILLAGE FOR VETS$100,000
THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION$75,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC$75,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$75,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC$25,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$25,000
STACK UP$25,000
HOAG CHARITY SPORTS$25,000
WORTHY BEYOND PURPOSE INC$25,000
TRIUMPH FOUNDATION$15,000
INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC$10,000
WOODLAND HILLS ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC: $10k → 10%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $20k → 11%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $10k → 8%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $20k → 11%THE DALMATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $15k → 11%DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%THE DALMATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%THE DALMATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%THE DALMATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%STACK UP: $25k → 14%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
CA
CO
KY
TN
OK
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 18 repeat orgs$608k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$2.3M
$438k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+48%

Still filing today

94%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +73%
  • VF
    VILLAGE FOR VETS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $353k · revenue ×30
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    4× · 2017–2022 · $325k · revenue +266%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEGION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +326%
  • PO
    PLAN OF ACTION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Special Forces Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Disabled American Veterans Department of California

Fulfilling our promises to the men and women who served.

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5
Amvets Department of California Service Foundation

Proudly serves veterans and their families in your community through service programs such as service officers, welcome home program to our homeless veterans, and grants used for various other veteran programs.

Public Benefit
6
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
7
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
8
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation

Building partnerships to advance research and education for the health of our nation's veterans.

Health
9
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
10
Disabled Veterans Charities Inc

To assist the disabled and needy veterans, their widows, and their dependents with an emphasis on eliminating homelessness

Public Benefit
11
United Service Organization Uso Council of San Diego

The primary mission of the uso san diego is to strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.

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12
About Face Veterans Against the War

We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and american society.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodland Hills Rotary Club Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterAddiction Recovery ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development CentersYmca Youth Development
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%6%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%52%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,941

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $625,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INCDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $260,000 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATI…YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $65,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY+4 more — $67,500 · Human Services+4 moreVILLAGE FOR VETS — $353,000 · Public BenefitVILLAGE FOR …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC — $125,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…Triumph Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTriumph Fou…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNI…LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION — $14,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $325,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY P…THE LEGION FUND — $100,000 · OtherTHE LEGION FUNDPLAN OF ACTION — $50,000 · OtherPLAN OF ACTIONNEW VISTA SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherTENDER LOVING CANINES SERVICE DOGS — $30,000 · OtherSafe Parking LA — $100,000 · OtherSafe Parking LAVETS ADVOCACY INC — $40,000 · OtherBrothers for Life — $100,000 · OtherBrothers for LifeSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $75,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EN…Worthy Beyond Purpose Inc — $50,000 · OtherWorthy Beyond Purpose Inc+14 more — $211,211 · Other+14 moreHOAG CHARITY SPORTS — $125,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $50,000 · HealthUNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $15,000 · HealthFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $97,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS — $20,000 · Education
Human Services$1,017,500Public Benefit$353,000Philanthropy$339,000Community Improvement$325,000Other$791,211Health$225,000Education$167,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $625,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetVILLAGE FOR VETS — $353,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetHOAG CHARITY SPORTS — $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBrothers for Life — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTriumph Foundation — $100,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Parking LA — $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $97,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorthy Beyond Purpose Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VISTA SCHOOL — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED FIREFIGHTERS OF LOS ANGELES CITY FIRE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSTACK UP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOMES FOR FAMILIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLITTLE ITALY ASSOCIATION OF SAN DIEGO — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMICHAEL LEVIN LONE SOLDIER FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODLAND HILLS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN — $3,711 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBREVARD VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Tech Sgt Jack Kushner Ret'D Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Tech Sgt Jack Kushner Ret'D Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tech Sgt Jack Kushner Ret'D 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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