· Public charity
Travis Manion Foundation
Tmf empowers veterans and families of fallen heroes to develop character in future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $36,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $602,745 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $566,745 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL 341 | $13,000 |
| ASSIST THE OFFICER HOUSTON | $13,000 |
| OPERATION LONE STAR | $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 (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DFDOYLESTOWN FIRE COMPANY NO 17× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +41%
- HPHOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $42k · revenue +368%
- HCHopkins County Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- ISIntentional Sportsone grant, 2023 · $57k · revenue +10%
- WSWORLD SERVANTS INCone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue -16%
- TFTRI-COUNTY FOP DISTRESSED OFFICERS FUNDone grant, 2019 · $23k
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.
Organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes for combat veterans to provide motivation, camaraderie, and to offer a release to cope with similar difficulties in a positive and therapeutic way. Providing safe, fun, and…
Honor and remembrance of service, missions and histories of us armed forces members. promotion of patriotism.
To serve living veterans through community service, national security and a strong national defense.
Defenders of Freedom is committed to supporting Post 9/11 Veterans with emergency financial assistance, treatment for traumatic brain injury and morale building activities, for a smooth transition to civilian life.
Veterans honoring veterans. the afghanistan iraq veterans war memorial fund is a non-profit organization working to create a memorial and to honor all those who have served in the afghanistan and iraq wars.
To serve the needs of veterans of foreign wars and their families.
To foster camaraderie among united states veterans of overseas conflicts. to serve our veterans, the military and our communities. to advocate on behalf of all veterans.
CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation (the Foundation) is a Colorado notprofit organization formed in 2007 for the purpose of assisting veterans who have suffered severe duty-related injuries resulting in permanent physical…
Assist veterans and dependents in obtaining department of veterans affairs entitlements, promote service to community and country, forster americanism and patriotism.
To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of america's veterans and their families.
To meet immediate financial needs to American soldiers, sailors, airmen, women, and marines who are recovering from wounds suffered in service of the nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maryville Academy Foundation. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 43 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 Assist the Officer Inc ↗
- Who funds Intentional Sports ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN FIRE COMPANY NO 1 ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hopkins County Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BUCKS REGIONAL POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Paralyzed Veterans of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pine Ridge Fire Department ↗
- Who funds CASAS POR CRISTO ↗
- Who funds Gentlemen of Vision Rites of Passage Enterprises ↗
- Who funds LINKS TO FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charleston Co Vol Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN CONNOR J BEDNARZYK USA MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Armed Services Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AND ATHLETES UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY 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: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Travis Manion 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.
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.