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The Call of Duty Endowment

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.9M
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.

Employment$49MHuman Services$18MHousing & Shelter$2.9MAnimals$460k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $440k
  • $250k+8 grants · $6.0M
$349,250
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,925,000
HIRE HEROES USA$1,539,200
STILL SERVING VETERANS$660,000
RFEA - THE FORCES EMPLOYMENT CHARITY (UK)$503,500
OPERATION JOB READY VETERANS (CL&E)$440,000
US VETS$349,250
WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED (UK)$328,900
AMVETS$277,500
VETERANS INC$247,500
JVS SOCAL$192,500
Individual grant recipient$5,475
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 (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Corporate Partners: $30k → 17%USVETS: $635k → 14%USVETS: $635k → 14%USVETS: $635k → 14%USVETS: $600k → 14%USVETS: $585k → 14%USVETS: $500k → 14%USVETS: $500k → 14%USVETS: $450k → 14%US VETS: $349k → 14%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

WA
NY
MA
IN
CA
MO
MD
AL
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66M · 21 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
9

Total granted

$66M
$736k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+3%

Still filing today

48%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M 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
EmploymentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HH
    HIRE HEROES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +284%
  • VI
    VetJobs Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $12M · revenue +120% · 68% of their budget
  • SS
    STILL SERVING VETERANS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +60% · 70% of their budget

Funded once

  • JV
    Jewish Vocational Service Socal
    one grant, 2024 · $350k
  • V
    VVS
    one grant, 2018 · $176k
  • CS
    Career Source of Broward
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
Vetality Corp

Services for veterans

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2
Veterans & Military Listening Post

Providing organized support to vetrans

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3
Vet Jobs America Inc

Vet Jobs America connects veterans with job instructors, experienced professionals for one on one training and assistance in all of the steps for finding a good paying job.

Education
4
Ascending Career Solutions Group Inc

Counseling for veteran issues relationships and career guidance

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5
Acronis Scs Vets

Returning veteran and veteran spouse computer cyber security education

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6
Vets Community Connections

The VCC mission is to assist veterans, military, and their families in successfully integrating into their community by connecting them with local individuals and organizations that can assist them in building thriving lives.

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7
The Veterans Exchange

Employment support and exchange for veterans

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8
Amvets American Veterans Department of Florida Service Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
9
Skills for Life Foundation

Develop, prepare, connect, and sustain service member, spouse, and veteran employment opportunities, creating a top ten national workforce supporting national defense interests.

Education
10
Colorado Veterans Resource Coalition
Health
11
For Veterans Sake Foundation

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…

Health
12
Transition Skills Training Inc

Training and Supports for Veterans, First Responders and their Families, we specialize in entrepreneurial training but that is not the only kind of support we provide.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Still Serving Veterans; the most unlike its peers is Career Learning Employment Center for Veterans 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

14 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. 14 of the 35 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Corporate America Supports you Vet Jobs: $5,500,000 · OtherCorporate America Supports you Vet …REFA-The Forces Employment Charity: $3,247,000 · OtherREFA-The Forces Employment CharityWalking with the Wounded: $2,264,000 · OtherWalking with the WoundedIndividual grant recipient: $1,925,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSalvation Army Haven: $1,663,000 · OtherSalvation Army HavenCareer Learning and Employment Center: $1,100,000 · OtherThe Forces Employment Charity: $1,081,000 · OtherOperation Job Needy Veterans: $980,000 · OtherJewish Vocational Service: $776,000 · Other+14 more: $3,251,875 · Other+14 moreHIRE HEROES USA INC: $15,343,200 · EducationHIRE HEROES USA INCVetJobs Inc: $11,600,000 · EmploymentVetJobs IncCAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC: $1,500,000 · EmploymentCAREER LEARNING EMPLOY…JVS SOCAL: $542,500 · EmploymentWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $480,000 · Employment+1 more: $30,000 · EmploymentSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $8,465,000 · Public BenefitSTILL SERVING VET…AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $2,540,500 · Public BenefitAMVETS NATIONAL S…+1 more: $30,000 · Public BenefitUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $4,889,250 · Human Services+1 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS INC: $2,691,500 · Community Improvement
Other$21,787,875Education$15,343,200Employment$14,152,500Public Benefit$11,035,500Human Services$4,919,250Community Improvement$2,691,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $15,343,200 over 9y, 21% of budgetVetJobs Inc: $11,600,000 over 6y, 68% of budgetSTILL SERVING VETERANS: $8,465,000 over 9y, 70% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $4,889,250 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetVETERANS INC: $2,691,500 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $2,540,500 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $542,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $480,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetAMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS): $452,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNextOp Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFORCESUNITED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUR BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds VetJobs Inc ↗
  • Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAREER LEARNING EMPLOYMENT CENTER FOR VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds JVS SOCAL ↗
  • Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMVETS (AMERICAN VETERANS) ↗
  • Who funds NextOp Inc ↗
  • Who funds FORCESUNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUR BLOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS ↗

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.

Bob Woodruff Family F…Silicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Call of Duty Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Call of Duty Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 58%
  • Veterans Inc: 58% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 35 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-PF 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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