· Public charity
Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc
The mission is to raise awareness and increase community support for military, first responders, and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $85,394 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $121,610 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,216 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART OF A LION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MIND PEACE LLC | $10,845 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $10,549 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES | $7,500 |
| NO FALLEN HEROES | $6,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +112% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- OHOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC2× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +53%
LEASHES OF VALOR2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +112%- NFNO FALLEN HEROES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- GTGRANTS TO MISC ORG 5000one grant, 2022 · $25k
- CHCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -31%
- AAAdopt A Cop BJJ Incone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -36% · 33% of their budget
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 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…
Therapy services for frontline workers such as military, police officers and fire fighters. Free mental heath services.
Helping wounded soldiers
Raises funds and provides support to military veteran and first responder organizations, focusing on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being
Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
Improving the life of Veterans
Operation Warrior Shield OWS provides comprehensive support programs for service members, veterans, first responders and their families to help heal their hidden wounds to reduce the epidemic of suicide through meditation, health wellness…
To provide support to our combat wounded veterans from iraq and afghanistan. we assist them financially for a specified period and if necessary, assist them on legal and financial matters, benefits, housing, and educational needs. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charles Humphrey Keating Iv Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pittsburgh Warriors Hockey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 HEART OF A LION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds LEASHES OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adopt A Cop BJJ Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFECAMP USA INC ↗
- Who funds STRONGHOLD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NO FALLEN HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH WARRIORS HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 organization Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc 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.
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