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The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation

The mission of the PenFed Foundation is to champion our military through investment, advocacy, and outreach.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Human Services$353kHealth$205kPublic Benefit$183kEmployment$168kArts & Culture$130kFood & Nutrition$110kPhilanthropy$85kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,022,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,324,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $302,266 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–50k33 grants · $715k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NextOp Inc$50,000
FORCE BLUE INC$50,000
The COMMIT Foundation$50,000
Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation$50,000
Green Beret foundation$50,000
SMART Heroes Foundation$50,000
Veterans One Stop Center WNY$42,500
Travis Manion Foundation$35,000
The Aleph Institute INC$35,000
Pritzker Military Museum & Library$30,000
Homeward Trails Animal Rescue$25,000
The 957 Project$25,000
wear blue run to remember$25,000
Canine Companions (Northeast Region)$25,000
Warriors Ethos Inc$25,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Canine Companions (Northeast Region): $25k → 7%Green Beret foundation: $50k → 9%Texas Family Life: $50k → 12%Scott's Wish Inc: $120k → 11%The COMMIT Foundation: $50k → 10%Foundation for Women Warriors: $15k → 11%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
MT
MN
IL
NY
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OH
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CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
LA
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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 20% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 16% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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Vetality Corp

Services for veterans

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Network for Exceptional Military Families
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3
Military Officers Association of America

Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. provide first-class service to our members. we are the leading voice on…

Public Benefit
4
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
5
Military Family Building Coalition
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Military Wellness Initiative
Public Benefit
7
Womens Influential Network Foundati

Offer mentoring to army women minorities

Civil Rights
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Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services
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Amvets (American Veterans)

Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…

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Veterans & Military Listening Post

Providing organized support to vetrans

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The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colonel James N Pritzker Library of the Citizen Soldier. 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 backsteadyJewish Community FederationsPublic Library SupportUnited Way FederationsClassical Music EnsemblesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Developmental Disabilities …Community Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringVeteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Animal Rescue and Adoption
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%51%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%62%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,517

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.

05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 50 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
17/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $60,000 · Public BenefitPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICANextOp Inc — $50,000 · Public BenefitNextOp IncCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INCMilitary Spouse Advocacy Network — $50,000 · Public BenefitMilitary Spouse Advocacy Ne…VETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC — $42,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF…WEAR BLUE RUN TO REMEMBER — $25,000 · Public BenefitWEAR BLUE RUN TO REMEMBERNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY AS…MARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Public BenefitMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATIONARIZONA VETERANS HALL OF FAME SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · Public BenefitWOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · Public Benefit+1 more — $10,000 · Public BenefitSCOTT'S WISH INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesSCOTT'S WISH INCTEXAS FAMILY LIFE — $50,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS FAMILY LIFEGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATIONTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMIT FOUNDATIONCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR IN…Blacksburg Refugee Partnership Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $15,000 · Human ServicesThe 957 Project — $25,000 · OtherThe 957 ProjectBlue Star Counseling — $25,000 · OtherBlue Star CounselingREVEILLE GROUNDS — $25,000 · OtherREVEILLE GROUNDSHAMPTON ROADS REGIONAL ASYMCA — $25,000 · OtherHAMPTON ROADS REGIONAL ASYMCAAMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF PUERTO RICO — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF PU…US Naval Sea Cadet Corps — $25,000 · OtherUS Naval Sea Cadet CorpsContext Ventures — $15,000 · OtherARCADIA FOOD INC — $60,000 · OtherARCADIA FOOD INCForce Blue Inc — $50,000 · OtherForce Blue IncMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION — $25,000 · OtherMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITI…THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 · OtherTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INCHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $25,000 · OtherHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE IN…ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Other+5 more — $49,727 · Other+5 moreSMART HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropySMART HER…Travis Manion Foundation — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Ma…UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…OUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILIT…GOLD STAR MOTHERS MARYLAND CHAPTER INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD STAR…THE MISSION CONTINUES — $60,000 · EmploymentWarriors Ethos Inc — $25,000 · EmploymentTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EmploymentVETS - Beyond the Uniform Foundation — $7,500 · EmploymentCOLONEL JAMES N PRITZKER LIBRARY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER — $30,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATION ENCORE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVETS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $15,000 · Health
Public Benefit$360,000Human Services$325,000Other$424,727Philanthropy$130,000Employment$117,500Arts & Culture$80,000Health$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCOTT'S WISH INC — $120,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES — $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC — $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNextOp Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTEXAS FAMILY LIFE — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSMART HEROES FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetForce Blue Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMilitary Spouse Advocacy Network — $50,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetVETERANS ONE-STOP CENTER OF WNY INC — $42,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLONEL JAMES N PRITZKER LIBRARY OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEAR BLUE RUN TO REMEMBER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWarriors Ethos Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION ENCORE — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCREATIVETS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS Naval Sea Cadet Corps — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARINE RAIDER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetARIZONA VETERANS HALL OF FAME SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBlacksburg Refugee Partnership Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RISE UP EXPERIENCE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLD STAR MOTHERS MARYLAND CHAPTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetVETS - Beyond the Uniform Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 7.0% 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.

Veterans United Found…Bob Woodruff Family F…Rumsfeld FoundationVetsaid IncWounded Warrior Proje…Tee It Up for the Tro…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Charities Aid Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…The Chicago Community…Enterprise Holdings F…
Veterans United FoundationMO22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Rumsfeld Foundation · Vetsaid Inc · Wounded Warrior Project Inc · Tee It Up for the Troops Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Enterprise Holdings 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 The Pentagon Federal Credit Union 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
  • United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pentagon Federal Credit Union 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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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