Georgia · Nonprofit
HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC
HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $81k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Heroes First Foundation Inc does
Mission
The heroes first foundation, inc. Was established to provide additional support to our military and first responder families. The heroes first foundation recognizes the countless hours spent and sacrifices made by our military heroes, police officers and firefighters to protect our lives, our property, our families and our american freedom. For some, the hardship begins immediately. For others, the hardship grows over time. The heroes first foundation is committed to doing all they can do to support these heroes because they know freedoms are not free and we are committed to those who make those freedoms possible.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Heroes first foundation held a golf tournament in 2024 and raised over 170,000. The organization was able to make a grant to paws4vets in the amount of 70,000. Paws4vets is a 501(c)(3) organization. Through the paws4vets assistance dog placement program (p4vadpp) veterans, active-duty servicemembers (adsm) or their dependents with physical, neurological, psychiatric or emotional disabilities can receive psychiatric service dogs,mobility service dogs and rehabilitative assistance dogs, free of charge. A grant in the amount of 10,000 was made to cherokee county homeless veterans program. That organization focuses on helping homeless veterans in cherokee county georgia with food, housing, clothing, and other support. A grant in the amount of 10,000 was made to folds of honor foundation. Folds of honor foundation is a 510(c)(3) organization that provides educational scholarships for qualifying spouses and/or dependent children of military service men and women and first responders killed or disabled while serving and defending our great nation.
$90,000 spentof which $90,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3k to $27k (+706%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John P Kahren
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300 → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
97% of HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC?
- HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,300 in grants to HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEROES FIRST FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing