New York · Nonprofit
THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND
THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND (New York) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,714,117 to it, the largest being Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ($3,415,000). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund does
Mission
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress and other severe injuries. We have built a series of twelve advanced treatment centers providing the best possible care, enabling them to continue to serve on active duty and enjoy a productive life. We now provide ongoing support for these facilities, including upgraded equipment, research funding, staffing and program support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intrepid centers enduring support program:The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (ifhf) is leading the effort to support service members suffering the terrible effects of traumatic brain injury (tbi), post-traumatic stress (pts), and other severe injuries, which afflict hundreds of thousands of military personnel. Over the past 18 years, ifhf has built a series of 12 specially-designed treatment facilities at military bases around the nation, within which service members receive the most advanced and proven care to address their injuries. The goal of treatment is returning these men and women to their regular duties in the armed forces and allowing them to enjoy a full and productive life. With the last of these centers opened in 2024, ifhf today is providing ongoing support for the treatment of these troops in five major areas: 1) upgrading diagnostic and therapy equipment so the latest and most effective facilities are available for patient care, 2) additional clinical staffing to provide more avenues for treatment, 3) research to expand understanding of the effects of and best treatments for tbi and pts, 4) upgrades to physical spaces to enhance the environment of care, 5) supporting…
$14,962,358 spentof which $14,740,415 as grants100% of program spendingOther program services:in december 2024, a $10,000 support grant was given to a british non-profit, walking with the wounded, which treats and assists british military personnel who have suffered severe injuries in the wars in iraq and afghanistan. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund has a long history of supporting british service members, who were included in the fund's original program of providing grants to families of military personnel who had been killed while serving in uniform.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,972,358.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $21M to $5.9M (−72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Richard T Santulli
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 52 funders to 45 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $1.6M.
24 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 funders by total. 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
THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 2023 28% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states 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
THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Intrepid Relief Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND?
- THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND (New York) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,714,117 to it, the largest being Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ($3,415,000). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $14,714,117 in grants to THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND?
- Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 145 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing