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· Charitable trust
THE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST
To serve past and present us army special forces soldiers and their families (see schedule o) through direct service programs such as scholarships, veteran assistance, transition programs, and family support services.
$425k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
5
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$584kPublic Benefit$336kEducation$80kPhilanthropy$10kInternational$6kOther$454k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
groupscholarshipunits
2021
immediatesecurityresearchveterans fraternalfraternal formedformed charteredchartered unite
2022
sfamenveterans members
2023
veterans members
2024
unitsnowperpetuate
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$13,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- DONOVAN AND BANK FOUNDATION$50,000
- MILLITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION$50,000
- MEMORIAL 3 GUN FOUNDATION$15,000
- SECURE AMERICA NOW$13,000
- SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION$10,000
- MARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION$10,000
- PATRIOTS HALL$10,000
02The need
04
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 (FY20–24, $584k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +40% 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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
19
Total granted
$1.1M
$330k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+108%
+40%
Still filing today
80%
16%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public BenefitHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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 +76%
- SOSOUND OFF INC3× · 2021–2023 · $185k · revenue +1235%
- TGTHE GRATITUDE INIATIVE4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +424%
Funded once
- DADONOVAN AND BANK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- NPNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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
Global Sof Foundation
Education
2
Soldiers of America
Human Services
3
Special Forces Foundation
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Philanthropy
4
Special Operators Transition Foundation
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Public Benefit
5
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
6
The Honor Foundation Inc
Assists u.s. special operation forces transition from active duty military to private sector.
Employment
7
Soww Corp
SOWW Corp was formed for the sole purpose of recognoizing both active and veteran members of our US Special Operations Forces with charitable outdoor events, family retreats, and therapeutic treatments addressing physical wounds and PTSD…
Human Services
8
Guide Soldier Foundation
To help soldiers and veterans find hope to curb the suicide crises.
Public Benefit
9
American Soldier
To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.
Human Services
10
Support Our Soldiers
Provide financial support for veterans.
Human Services
11
Special Operations Fund
To provide benefits for family members of those who have died or have been severely wounded in the line of duty while serving with various special mission units of us armed forces.
Education
12
Coast X Coast Foundation
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).
Public Benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Military Warriors Support 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.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$583,841Other$453,990Public Benefit$336,250Education$80,010Philanthropy$10,000International$6,000
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 MILLITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds THE GRATITUDE INIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DONOVAN AND BANK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FUND ↗
- Who funds MARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL 3 GUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-SOLDIER PLATOON ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIORS FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FUND ↗
- Who funds SECURE AMERICA NOW ↗
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.
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC6.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUND OFF INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 13.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 464875047 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SOUND OFF INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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