· Public charity
Tee It Up for the Troops Inc
Tee it up for the troops is a non profit organization created to help support the men and women of the us military and their families, with an emphasis given to the fallen and disabled members of our armed forces.
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 12 grants below total $660,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,719,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,059,724 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $423k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISHER HOUSE | $222,500 |
| MOVE UNITED | $140,000 |
| SALUTE MILITARY GOLF ASSOCIATION INC | $60,000 |
| THE WARRIORS JOURNEY | $45,000 |
| MEDAL OF HONOR FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| CREATIVETS | $35,000 |
| WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION | $30,000 |
| BLUE STAR FAMILIES | $25,000 |
| PURPLE HEART HOMES | $20,000 |
| PROJECT SANCTUARY | $20,000 |
| COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS | $15,000 |
| VETERANS HERITAGE PROJECT | $7,500 |
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, $721k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $958k · revenue +32%
- MUMOVE UNITED7× · 2017–2024 · $756k · revenue +106%
- WFWARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION4× · 2017–2021 · $209k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TFTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $99k · revenue -30%
- ABARS BELLUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- BTBeyond The Burn Foundationone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -45%
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.
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…
Provide financial support for veterans.
Wounded War Heroes was founded to show our appreciation to the men and women who have been wounded or injured as a result of serving our country, by providing them therapeutic outdoor experiences upon their return home from fighting for…
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
To provide support to our combat wounded veterans from iraq and afghanistan. we assist them financially for a specified period and if necessary, assist them on legal and financial matters, benefits, housing, and educational needs. we…
The mission is to build homes for soldiers injured during the line of duty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing. 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.
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 99 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 FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE UNITED ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds Salute to Military Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVETS ↗
- Who funds NETWORK 211 INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds COMBAT VETERANS TO CAREERS INC ↗
- Who funds TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Medal Of Honor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds VFW DEPT OF MN 210 LAKEVILLE POST VFW ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW YORK SECTION PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON BEACH POST 133 DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA THE AMERICAN LEGION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A SOLDIER DOOR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Valley Fuller Center for Housing ↗
- Who funds FOR FAMILIES OF ACTIVE MILITARY INC BLEHM ↗
- Who funds USO - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA INC DBA BOB HOPE USO ↗
- Who funds North Texas Warrior Golf Assoc ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds Beyond The Burn Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUNKERS IN BAGHDAD ↗
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: Veterans United Foundation · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gary Sinise Foundation · Fisher House Foundation Inc · Disabled Veterans National Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · American Express Foundation · The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust
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 Tee It Up for the Troops 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.
- Vantage Health System Inc — 19% of income from government
- Move United — 16% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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