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The Folded Flag Foundation

The mission of THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION is to provide scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the united states military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident related to u.s.

$3.0M
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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 2022.

Human Services$87kPhilanthropy$65kHealth$46kEducation$18k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,014,660 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,007,160 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.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A SOLDIER'S CHILD FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $5k → 4%LEGACIES ALIVE: $10k → 13%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.
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 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
Lead the Way Fund Inc

Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…

Human Services
3
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
4
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
5
Soldiers of America
Human Services
6
Frontline to Field Foundation

Frontline to field is a nonprofit organization founded from the hearts of two individuals deeply committed to the well-being of those who serve and sacrifice for others. inspired by their personal connections to the military, first…

Recreation & Sports
7
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
8
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
9
Captain Joseph House Foundation

The captain joseph house foundation provides a continuum of care for the families of the fallen (known as gold star families) in honor and memory of captain joseph william schultz, army special forces, who died in wardak province,…

Health
10
Operation One Voice Inc

Operation one voice (o1v) is a volunteer-based nonprofit dedicated to providing immediate financial assistance, programs, and resources to wounded and fallen special operations forces (sof) warriors and their families. through fundraising,…

Human Services
11
Celebrate Commemorate Memorial Day
Arts & Culture
12
Honor and Remember Inc

In keeping with our mission and primary goals, we continue to make a significant impact on this nation by perpetually recognizing our fallen military heroes and their families. our objectives remain rooted in four guiding principles:…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Soldiers Child Inc; the most unlike its peers is Olympia Companies Southern Highlands Charitable Foundation. 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 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION IN…OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLAN…A SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesA SOLDIERS CHILD INCLEGACIES ALIVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEGACIES ALIVEJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INCWHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM: $25,827 · HealthWHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TE…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDR…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $10,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FO…CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATIONWINDY 25 MEMORIAL FUND: $11,500 · OtherWINDY 25 ME…CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherCAPE FEAR C…UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Education
Philanthropy$65,000Human Services$65,000Health$55,827Other$21,500Education$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA SOLDIERS CHILD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWHITEFISH VETERANS SUPPORT TEAM: $25,827 over 1y, 30% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACIES ALIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Folded Flag Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Folded Flag Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $4.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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