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Wings of Freedom Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| MARK TWAIN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDRENS FUND | $400,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON BASKETBALL TEAM | $100,000 |
| CALAVERAS COLD CASE TASK FORCE | $100,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- GMGeorge Mark Childrens Fund4× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +76%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +75%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FAIR INC2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +111%
Funded once
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +49%- STSHELTER TO SOLDIER INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -42% · 31% of their budget
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +13%
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.
To recognize and honor california's peace officers who gave their lives in the line of duty. serving the citizens of this great state, and provide support to the family members left behind.
The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…
The fund cares for our nation's critically wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans and military families. we assist all military branches, including both post-9/11 and vietnam veterans, providing one-on-one case management,…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
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…
The vfw foundation's mission is to serve and enhance the lives of military veterans, service members, and their families by securing resources to promote positive outcomes.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
The folds of honor foundation is rallying a nation to ensure no family is left behind in the fight to preserve american freedom. through scholarships and other assistance, we give back to the spouses and children of soldiers killed or…
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
Our Goal is to eradicate homelessness for our Veterans using our resources to support the transition from the street to permanent housing with the primary mission of providing the support to obtain and sustain housing, food and shelter for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Fair Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TO SOLDIER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF AMADOR & CALAVERAS ↗
- Who funds Calaveras Cold Case Task Force ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Wings of Freedom 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.
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