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The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project

To raise and provide funds for the support, education, healthcare,rehabilitation and relief to u.s military service members, veterans and thier families by providing grants to 501(c)3 charities and service members experiencing hardship or crises.

$383k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$35k
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 2025.

Human Services$591kEducation$326kHealth$212kArts & Culture$102kPublic Benefit$40kPhilanthropy$35kReligion$26kHousing & Shelter$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $247,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $382,720 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,220 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MTSU FOUNDATION$35,000
SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION CHAPTER 38$35,000
OPERATION SONG$25,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC$25,000
AMERICAN MILITARY FAMILY$20,000
SHADOW WARRIORS PROJECT$15,000
OUR MILITARY KIDS$15,000
MOTHERS OF VETERAN SUICIDE CORP$10,000
MONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTERAL CENTER$10,000
TASK FORCE PINEAPPLE INC$10,000
BROTHERS KEEPER VETERAN FOUNDATION$10,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
FREEDOM SINGS USA$10,000
CHARLIE FIVE INC$10,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$7,500
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 (FY17–21, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $20k → 9%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%A SOLDIERS CHILD: $15k → 9%OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $13k → 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

ME
CA
CO
KY
VA
NM
TN
NC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$955k · 15 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
28

Total granted

$955k
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’25
EducationPublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • SF
    SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +43%
  • AS
    A SOLDIERS CHILD INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +149%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    3× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • PI
    POSSIBILITIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -57%
  • LO
    LIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -48%
  • CO
    CODE OF VETS
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
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
Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
2
Texas Wounded Warriors

The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…

Public Benefit
3
Warfighter Scuba

To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…

Public Benefit
4
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
5
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
6
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
7
Soldiers of America
Human Services
8
Warfighter Outfitters

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…

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9
Warrior Reunion Foundation

Supports combat veterans in overcoming the challenges of post-military transition by reconnecting those who served together overseas through the execution of recovery reunions.

Public Benefit
10
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

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…

Human Services
11
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coalition to Salute America's Heroes Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 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

45 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. 45 of the 50 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
25/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,500 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIV…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE…+6 more: $45,600 · Education+6 moreSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION: $124,000 · OtherSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATIONPOSSIBILITIES INC: $40,000 · OtherPOSSIBILITIES INCLIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherLIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATIONONE MORE DAY RIDERS IDAHO INC: $25,000 · OtherONE MORE DAY RIDERS IDAHO INCCODE OF VETS: $24,249 · OtherCODE OF VETSCHARLIE FIVE INC: $40,000 · OtherCHARLIE FIVE INCGODS WORD FOR WARRIORS: $26,000 · OtherGODS WORD FOR WARRIORSNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $17,500 · Other+9 more: $53,007 · Other+9 moreA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $86,000 · Human ServicesA SOLDIERS C…SWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS: $35,000 · Human ServicesSWP INC dba …OPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $12,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION ST…HALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesHALO FOR FRE…THE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE JASON FO…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $85,000 · HealthVanderbilt U…FREEDOM SINGS USA: $22,400 · HealthFREEDOM SING…FRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthFRONTLINE HE…REBOOT RECOVERY INC: $16,000 · HealthREBOOT RECOV…SHIELDS AND STRIPES INC: $10,000 · HealthSHIELDS AND …AMERICAN MILITARY FAMILY INC: $60,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN M…Memories of Honor Inc: $10,000 · Public BenefitMemories o…TASK FORCE PINEAPPLE INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitTASK FORCE…MOTHERS OF VETERAN SUICIDE CORP: $10,000 · Public BenefitMOTHERS OF…SPECIAL OPS XCURSIONS: $10,000 · Public BenefitSPECIAL OP…FLANDERS FIELD POST NO 150 VETERENS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES: $10,000 · Public BenefitFLANDERS F…HAVAINC: $5,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $5,000 · Public BenefitSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD …THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…OUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILIT…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…OPERATION SONG INC: $77,318 · Arts & CultureMONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$331,100Other$384,756Human Services$153,500Health$153,400Public Benefit$120,000Philanthropy$110,000Arts & Culture$102,318

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION: $124,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $86,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SONG INC: $77,318 over 4y, 14% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN MILITARY FAMILY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPOSSIBILITIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS: $35,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGODS WORD FOR WARRIORS: $26,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SINGS USA: $22,400 over 3y, 11% of budgetMONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFRONTLINE HEALING FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREBOOT RECOVERY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN TENNESSEE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMemories of Honor Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSHIELDS AND STRIPES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHERS OF VETERAN SUICIDE CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHALO FOR FREEDOM WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OPS XCURSIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD THE TIEGEN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORKING RANCH COWBOYS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSCREAMING EAGLE FOUNDATION: $5,600 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVAINC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWreaths Across America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIPE HITTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetMUSIC CITY BOWL INC: $507 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Veterans United Found…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Nashville Predators F…Lendlease US Communit…Delta Dental of Tenne…Andrea Waitt Carlton …Bob Woodruff Family F…Memorial Foundation I…Hca Healthcare Founda…Raymond James Charita…Enterprise Holdings F…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN21.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Lendlease US Community Fund · Delta Dental of Tennessee Inc · Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings 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 Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project?

    Find your warmest path to The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project 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 50 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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