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Warrior Assist Foundation

Wilmington, DE · EIN 84-4555571. Reported 25 grants totalling $127,000 to 17 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$127,000granted, 2020-2024
17organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,664,678assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Warrior Assist Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $7,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
United Through ReadingSan Diego, CA$23,000442024
Vets Returning Home IncRoseville, MI$13,500222022
Veterans Community ProjectKansas City, MO$13,000332024
Our Military Kids IncOakton, VA$12,500222024
Stillwater Ranch IncLoveland, CO$10,000222024
Angels of Americas FallenColorado Spgs, CO$5,000112023
Blue Star Service Dogs IncHamburg, MI$5,000112023
Combined ArmsHouston, TX$5,000112020
Freedom River IncBrighton, MI$5,000112024
Intrepid Fallen Heroes FundNew York, NY$5,000112020
Nextop IncHouston, TX$5,000112024
Ptsd Foundation of AmericaHouston, TX$5,000112020
Stop Soldier SuicideDurham, NC$5,000112024
Working Dogs for VetsLawrenceburg, TN$5,000112024
Zero Day IncDelton, MI$5,000112023
Fisher House MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$2,500112022
Tragedy Assistance Program for SurvivorsArlington, VA$2,500112020

5 of 17 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 33%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Public & Societal Benefit
13 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Mental Health
2 grants
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Environment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20205$25,000$5,000
20212$9,500$4,750
20223$15,000$6,000
20237$35,000$5,000
20248$42,500$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 24% of this one's giving went to organizations in Michigan. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Michigan
$31K
California
$23K
Colorado
$15K
Virginia
$15K
Texas
$15K
Missouri
$13K
North Carolina
$5K
Tennessee
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America9 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Warrior Assist Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Foundation Source 501 Silverside Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19809. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 84-4555571 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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