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Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc

Uncommon grit foundation removes barriers to healing, stability, and connection for military, veterans, first responders, and their families, so they can heal, rebuild, and belong at home, at work, and in their communities.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$29k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$275kHuman Services$57kPublic Benefit$55kYouth Development$45kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$20kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $115,994, the rows itemized in this filing. The $170,908 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,914 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.
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAV - ERIE COUNTY #73$29,000
VIGILANT TORCH$20,000
OPERATION SONG$16,250
BADEN K-9 KARES FOUNDATION$15,000
STRONGHOLD FOOD PANTRY$15,000
MIND PEACE LLC$10,744
MISHAWAKA TROOP TOWN$10,000
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 (FY22–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BADEN K-9 KARES FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $49k → 13%VIGILANT TORCH: $20k → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $8k → 13%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$440k · 6 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$440k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
0%

Still filing today

83%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • OH
    OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $57k · revenue +53%
  • LEASHES OF VALOR
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +112%
  • NF
    NO FALLEN HEROES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +205%

Funded once

  • GT
    GRANTS TO MISC ORG 5000
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • LU
    LIFECAMP USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +107%
  • AA
    Adopt A Cop BJJ Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -36% · 33% of their budget
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
Operation Adopt a Soldier

Helping wounded soldiers

Public Benefit
2
Soldiers of America
Human Services
3
Hope4vets
Housing & Shelter
4
Military Wellness Initiative
Public Benefit
5
Peaceful Warrior Foundation

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…

Human Services
6
For Veterans Sake Foundation

For veteran's sake foundation is here to provide an alternative solution to dealing with pts (post traumatic stress). we use a combination of a (non-therapeutic) neuro-traumatic resourcing, service dogs and consulting. working with the…

Health
7
Frontline Strong

Therapy services for frontline workers such as military, police officers and fire fighters. Free mental heath services.

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8
Spartan Paws 4 Warriors

Service dogs for disabled veterans

Animals
9
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
10
Hookin Veterans
Public Benefit
11
Homes for Heroes Foundation
Housing & Shelter
12
American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charles Humphrey Keating Iv Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mishawaka Troop Town Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEART OF A LION: $275,000 · Public BenefitHEART OF A LIONLEASHES OF VALOR: $35,000 · Public BenefitLEASHES OF VALORCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public BenefitCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATIONNO FALLEN HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $56,900 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALIN…VIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesVIGILANT TORCH F…Baden K9 Kares Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesBaden K9 Kares F…Disabled American Veterans: $29,000 · OtherDisabled American…GRANTS TO MISC ORG 5000: $25,475 · OtherGRANTS TO MISC OR…MIND PEACE LLC: $21,589 · OtherMIND PEACE LLCPITTSBURGH WARRIORS HOCKEY: $15,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH WARRIO…MISHAWAKA TROOP TOWN INC: $10,000 · OtherMISHAWAKA TROOP T…STRONGHOLD FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION SONG INC: $16,250 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,549 · Arts & CultureLIFECAMP USA INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentAdopt A Cop BJJ Inc: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Public Benefit$347,000Human Services$91,900Other$101,064Food & Nutrition$35,000Arts & Culture$26,799Youth Development$20,000Crime & Legal$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART OF A LION: $275,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $56,900 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLEASHES OF VALOR: $35,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSTRONGHOLD FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $29,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIFECAMP USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAdopt A Cop BJJ Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNO FALLEN HEROES FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetOPERATION SONG INC: $16,250 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH WARRIORS HOCKEY: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,549 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc 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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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