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The Retired Enlisted Association Memorial Fund

To assist fellow veterans and their families in fortune and distress, in every proper and legitimate manner; and to represent them when matters affecting their rights and interests are under evaluation.

$414k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $351k
$60,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A SANCTUARY FOR MILITARY FAMILIES$60,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$60,000
MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS$60,000
MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR$60,000
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS$60,000
THE RETIRED ENLISTED ASSOCIATION$50,901
PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS$30,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$30,000
02The need
02

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 (FY19–19, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $30k → 5%MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS: $60k → 7%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.

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.

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.

1
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
2
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
3
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
4
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
5
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…

6
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
7
Mid-South chapter of paralyzed veterans of America

Paralyzed veterans of america works to maximize the quality of life for its members and all people with spinal cord injury/disease (sci/d) as a leading advocate for health care, sci/d research and education, veterans' benefits and rights,…

8
Service Peace Warriors

Raise and train service dogs for veterans and first responders with ptsd at no charge to them.

Animals
9
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc

The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.

10
Disabled American Veterans

Informational services to u.s. military veterans as to how and where to obtain veterans benefits within the government system.

11
Usvets - Texas

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Human Services
12
Maine Paws for Veterans Inc

The mission of maine paws for veterans, inc. is to provide service dog training and support to veterans with military-related post-traumatic stress.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Shelter for Homeless Veterans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary — $60,000 · Public BenefitA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA…UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $60,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INCPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $30,000 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTSFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCTHE RETIRED ENLISTED ASSOCIATION — $50,901 · OtherTHE RETIRED ENLISTED ASSOCIATI…MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOME…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $30,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOG…MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $60,000 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSIST…
Public Benefit$150,000Other$110,901Human Services$90,000Employment$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE RETIRED ENLISTED ASSOCIATION — $50,901 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Retired Enlisted Association Memorial Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to The Retired Enlisted Association Memorial Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Retired Enlisted Association Memorial Fund 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 8 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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