Tee It Up for the Troops Inc
Burnsville, MN · EIN 20-2974507. Reported 84 grants totalling $2,626,989 to 49 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 Tee It Up for the Troops Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B82) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 27% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $18,295. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | Rockville, MD | $719,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Move United | Rockville, MD | $490,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salute to Military Golf Association Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Creativets | Nashville, TN | $117,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Medal of Honor Foundation Inc | Mt Pleasant, SC | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| NETWORK211 | Springfield, MO | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Star Families Inc | Encinitas, CA | $86,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc | Pagosa Spgs, CO | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Warrior Canine Connection Inc | Boyds, MD | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Purple Heart Homes Inc | Statesville, NC | $70,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Combat Veterans to Careers | Wildwood, FL | $64,325 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Warrior Foundation Freedom Station | San Diego, CA | $52,553 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| K9S for Warriors Inc | Ponte Vedra, FL | $46,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fisher House Southern California Inc | Long Beach, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| On Course Foundation USA | Orlando, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Legion | Huntingtn Bch, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beyond the Burn Foundation | Southlake, TX | $23,050 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Armed Services YMCA of the USA | Woodbridge, VA | $21,553 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Minnesota | Lakeville, MN | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marine Raider Foundation | Fishers, IN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Open Water | Huntingtn Bch, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Defenders of Freedom | Coppell, TX | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Higher Ground USA Inc | Ketchum, ID | $16,591 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Western New York Section Pga Foundation | East Amherst, NY | $16,191 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wounded Veterans Relief Fund | N Palm Beach, FL | $15,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois (gen Downing Shelter for Homeless) | Peoria, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Imprints of Honor | Phoenix, AZ | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dtom 22 0 Foundation | Bagley, MN | $12,717 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans | Saint Paul, MN | $10,559 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sentinels of Freedom Scholarshipfoundation | San Ramon, CA | $10,488 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Angels of Americas Fallen | Colorado Spgs, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bob Hope USO | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fallen Heroes Family Camp Inc | Nashville, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Freedom Paws | Chillicothe, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gold Star Teen Adventures | Candor, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Peoria Honor Flight | Peoria, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope for the Warriors | Springfield, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Minnesota Military Family Foundation | Golden Valley, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sheep Dog Impact Assistance | Rogers, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Working Dogs for Vets | Lawrenceburg, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Fuller Center for Housing Inc | West Peoria, IL | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Side Office of Concern | Peoria, IL | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Texas Wounded Warrior Golf Association | Roanoke, TX | $8,162 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Armed Forces Service Center | Saint Paul, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bunkers in Baghdad | Buffalo, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Amateur Golf Scholars | Murrieta, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors | Arlington, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Legion Charities Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| VFW Post 950 | Mankato, MN | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
16 of 49 (33%) 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 49 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 | 44 | $979,002 | $13,858 |
| 2022 | 14 | $304,987 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $683,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 12 | $660,000 | $32,500 |
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
54% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. 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.
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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 the strongest signal available 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.
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 $18,295 -- 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 Maryland.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Tee It Up for the Troops Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 515 West Travelers Trail, Burnsville, MN, 55337.
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