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Tri-City Evergreen Post 2298 VFW

To foster camaraderie among United States veterans of overseas confliocts.

$3k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Membership Benefit$9kHuman Services$9kPhilanthropy$7kRecreation & Sports$6kArts & Culture$4kHealth$2kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$558k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VFW ILLINOIS$1,970
BISON YOUTH BASEBALL$745
FISH FOOD PANTRY$500
FISH FOOD PANTRY$500
CUSD 300 - JACOBS HIGH SCHOOL$300
NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL$250
SHOP WITH A COP$250
CUSD 300 - DUNDEE CROWN HS$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–26, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VFW NATIONAL HOME: $500 → 9%SHOP WITH A COP: $500 → 8%SHOP WITH A COP: $500 → 8%SHOP WITH A COP: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 9 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$33k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+5%

Still filing today

67%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550 went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25’26
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitFood & NutritionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DO
    DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI
    3× · 2024–2026 · $9k · revenue +41%
  • TE
    TRI-CITY EVERGREEN POST 2298 VFW
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +127%
  • SW
    SHOP WITH A COP
    3× · 2024–2026 · $1k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TP
    TRUE PATRIOTS CARE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • OS
    OPERATION SWEET LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +27%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Us

To serve living veterans through community service, national security and a strong national defense.

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2
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department 1934 Redding

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.

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3
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United State Dept

To provide activities to honor veterans

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4
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washington Post 9430
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5
Veterans of Foreign Wars 3159

To assist disabled and needy war veterans and members of the us armed forces and their dependents and the widows and orphans of deceased veterans; to provide entertainment,care and assistance to hospitalized veterans and members of the us…

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6
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Wisconsin

Veterans Fraternal

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7
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 6461

Veterans affairs

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8
Wurl-Feind Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2667

Serving our veterans active military and community

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9
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Jurupa Post No 10267

To preserve & strengthen comradeship among the members who are past or present member of the Armed Forces of the United States; perpetuate the memory and history of the dead; assist widows & orphans; maintain allegiance to the government…

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10
Veterans of Foreign Wars

The vfw has been supporting and honoring the military veterans and their families since 1914.

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11
Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Oklahoma

Service to veterans

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12
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Dist 9 1454

Provide services for military veterans of foreign service.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vfw National Home; the most unlike its peers is Dundee Crown Athletic Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI: $8,683 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREIBISON YOUTH BASEBALL: $5,945 · OtherBISON YOUTH BASEBALLTRI-CITY EVERGREEN POST 2298 VFW: $3,836 · OtherTRI-CITY EVERGREEN POST 2298 VFWAMERICAN LEGION POST 0679 DUNDEE CARPENTERSVILLE: $2,300 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST 0679 DUNDEE CARPENTERSVILLEDUNDEE HIGHLANDS P T C INC: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $850 · Other+7 more: $2,400 · Other+7 moreMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $6,700 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR T…TRUE PATRIOTS CARE INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureOPERATION SWEET LIFE INC: $2,500 · Public BenefitFISH FOOD PANTRY: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSHOP WITH A COP: $1,250 · Human ServicesVFW NATIONAL HOME: $500 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,710 · Health
Other$25,014Philanthropy$6,700Arts & Culture$3,000Public Benefit$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000Human Services$1,750Health$1,710

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEPARTMENT OF ILLINOIS VETERANS OF FOREI: $8,683 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-CITY EVERGREEN POST 2298 VFW: $3,836 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTRUE PATRIOTS CARE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOPERATION SWEET LIFE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFISH FOOD PANTRY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOP WITH A COP: $1,250 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTransitional Living Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVFW NATIONAL HOME: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL BASSET RESCUE INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUNDEE CROWN ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE4.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tri-City Evergreen Post 2298 VFW funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tri-City Evergreen Post 2298 VFW. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Tri-City Evergreen Post 2298 VFW 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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