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The Special Forces Charitable Trust
THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST (sfct) provides meaningful and sustainable support to the green berets and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $158,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $425,173 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $267,173 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILLITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DONOVAN AND BANK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MEMORIAL 3 GUN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SECURE AMERICA NOW | $13,000 |
| MARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PATRIOTS HALL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $584k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GSGOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES4× · 2020–2023 · $229k · revenue +126%
- SOSOUND OFF3× · 2021–2023 · $185k · revenue +212%
- TGTHE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +244%
Funded once
- NPNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
- DADONOVAN AND BANK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- DADUSKIN AND STEPHENS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Assists u.s. special operation forces transition from active duty military to private sector careers.
The purpose of the special forces scholarship fund (sfsf) is to award merit based post secondary educational scholarships to the daughters and sons of current and veteran special forces soldiers.
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…
Msofc's mission is to enable the sustained success of america's special ops warriors and families through collaborative health and well-being research and programs. these programs include virtual education events, training & workshops for…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
The Special Operations Association Foundation supports Special Operations veterans and active-duty members, along with their families and survivors. The goals are to support the educational awards program, provide emotional support to…
Provide financial support for veterans.
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…
Our mission is to honor the legacy of fallen us special operations forces by enhancing the quality of life for special ops veterans and their families. (continued on schedule o).
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Secure America Now Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
- Who funds THE GRATITUDE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds THE DONOVAN & BANK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL VALOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-SOLDIER PLATOON INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECURE AMERICA NOW FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Special Forces Charitable Trust 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.
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.