Land of the Free Foundation
City of Industry, CA · EIN 26-0710805. Reported 64 grants totalling $5,102,400 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Land of the Free Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 49% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $1,360,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
60 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $2,522,400 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starfish Donations Inc | Newport Beach, CA | $2,485,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Semper Fi & Americas Fund | Quantico, VA | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors | Arlington, VA | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United States Veterans Initiative | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Special Forces Charitable Trust | Southern Pnes, NC | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marines Memorial Association | San Francisco, CA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Grip Training Institute | Berkeley, CA | $118,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Marine Raider Foundation | Fishers, IN | $105,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy | West Point, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Canine Companions for Independence | Santa Rosa, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Higher Ground USA Inc | Ketchum, ID | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of | Mt Pleasant, SC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United States Naval Academy Foundation Inc | Annapolis, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Campanile Foundation | San Diego, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc | Alexandria, VA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bob Hope USO | Los Angeles, CA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Emotional Health Association | Culver City, CA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Seal Future Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Association of Graduates of the Usafa | Usaf Academy, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Donor and Member Services Penn State University | State College, PA | $50,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | Virginia Bch, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pacific Battleship Center | San Pedro, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| USC Nrotc Midshipmen Association | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Condor Squadron Officers & Airmens Association Inc | Van Nuys, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Seabee Historical Foundation | Gulfport, MS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | Tampa, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Warfighter Advance Inc | Sparks Glenco, MD | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Association of the United State Army Inc | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Healing Forces Inc | Tampa, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Outdoor Buddies Inc | Fort Collins, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spirit of America Worldwide | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Idaho Foundation Inc | Moscow, ID | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Halo for Freedom Warrior Foundation | Willow Park, TX | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chow Corp | Annapolis, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coast Guard Foundation Inc | Stonington, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Evergreen Freedom Foundation | Olympia, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Homes for Families | Woodland Hls, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Mission Continues | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | Irvine, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
21 of 42 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 25 | $1,178,400 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 35 | $1,344,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 3 | $1,220,000 | $75,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | $1,360,000 | $1,360,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
67% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
6 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 14 grants totalling $220,573 to Land of the Free Foundation. That is 33% of the 18 funders we can see giving to it. Those 6 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
5 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation | California | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Doty Family Foundation Inc | California | $45,600 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Tech Sgt Jack Kushner Ret'd Foundation | California | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wheeler Family Foundation | California | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jpmorgan Chase Foundation | New York | $800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $173 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Land of the Free Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 13191 Crossroads Pkwy N 6TH Fl, City of Industry, CA, 91746.
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