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· Public charity

Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and enhanced understanding of their relevant needs.

$495k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$242kHealth$210kEducation$185kHuman Services$91kEmployment$30kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$8k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $223,001, the rows itemized in this filing. The $495,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $272,488 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$77,767
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$77,767
NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION$77,767
DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM$67,467
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 (FY18–24, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $91k → 14%GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $8k → 16%THE BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $67k → 14%THE BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $55k → 14%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$623k · 4 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$623k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-20%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • NT
    NORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $224k · revenue +84%
  • DO
    Defenders of Freedom
    3× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +8%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $169k · revenue -17%

Funded once

  • CV
    COHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -70%
  • FC
    Forsyth Cty Veterans Treatment Court Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -84% · 47% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN FORSYTH COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -20%
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
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
2
Triple Bravo Initaive

To empower and support veterans.

Public Benefit
3
Macon County Ptsd Foundation
—
4
3-8 Oif & Oef Veterans Foundation
—
5
State Guard Association of Texas

Provide financial assistance to soldiers

Public Benefit
6
No Fallen Heroes Foundation Inc

Provide awareness of and support for mental health issues faced by combat veterans

Public Benefit
7
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
—
8
Fort Hood Treatment Court Mentor Group
Health
9
Forgotten Heroes Foundation
Human Services
10
Trail of Honor
—
11
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
12
Run for the Fallen Inc

Benefit fallen soldiers

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Folds of Honor - North Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jenifer Strait Memorial Foundation Dba Strait to the Kids. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Defenders of Freedom: $213,545 · Human ServicesDefenders of FreedomTHE BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION INC: $16,100 · Human ServicesTHE BRENDAN LOONEY FOUNDATION INCGOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $8,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION: $223,845 · Recreation & SportsNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATIONFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $169,186 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH T…COHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC: $50,000 · HealthCOHEN VETERANS…THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $30,000 · HealthTHE MENTAL HEA…North Texas Warrior Golf Assoc: $18,000 · HealthNorth Texas Wa…Forsyth Cty Veterans Treatment Court Inc: $30,000 · OtherJENIFER STRAIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION DBA STRAIT TO THE KIDS: $10,000 · OtherPEACE LOVE AND HORSES LUCKY STAR FARM: $7,500 · Other
Human Services$237,645Recreation & Sports$223,845Education$169,186Health$98,000Other$47,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION: $223,845 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDefenders of Freedom: $213,545 over 3y, 11% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $169,186 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetForsyth Cty Veterans Treatment Court Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNorth Texas Warrior Golf Assoc: $18,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJENIFER STRAIT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION DBA STRAIT TO THE KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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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 Troops First Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Troops First Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Troops First Foundation Incorporated?

    Find your warmest path to Troops First Foundation Incorporated 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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