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National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

The NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (nsdar) was established to perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved american independence.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$736k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $3,178,391 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,526,114 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,347,723 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $427k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $717k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$20,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$247M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KATE DUNCAN SMITH SCHOOL$736,196
CROSSNORE SCHOOL$660,980
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE NATIONAL MONUMENT FOUNDATION$350,000
NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY$250,000
MILITARY WOMEN'S MEMORIAL$160,000
WASHINGTON HERITAGE MUSEUMS$150,000
NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$100,000
BERRY COLLEGE$71,000
HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL$61,154
THE VETERAN'S FARM OF NC INC$60,000
FORT TICONDEROGA$58,000
HILLSIDE SCHOOL INC$57,305
MARIAN ANDERSON MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$40,000
OPERATION REHABILITATION$40,000
HONOR HER FOUNDATION INC$39,946
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $15k → 8%THE VETERAN'S FARM OF NC INC: $60k → 13%HONOR FLIGHT NETWORK: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 26 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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86

Total granted

$8.9M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+38%

Still filing today

88%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • KD
    KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +10% · 52% of their budget
  • CC
    CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2017–2021 · $845k · revenue +4%
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $507k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS
    one grant, 2017 · $380k
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +56%
  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $291k · revenue +108%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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American Civil War Museum Collection

The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.

Arts & Culture
2
Uss Silversides Submarine Museum

To honor through education and historic preservation the people who have served and are servicing the naval and maritime traditions of our nation.

Arts & Culture
3
The American Civil War Museum

The mission of the american civil war museum is to be the preeminent center for the exploration of the american civil war and its legacies from multiple perspectives: union and confederate, enslaved and free african americans, soldiers and…

Arts & Culture
4
Us Marshals Museum Inc

The mission of the u.s. marshals museum, inc. is to form a national center of heritage and legacy, disseminate knowledge and inspire appreciation for the accomplishments of the u.s. marshals service.

Arts & Culture
5
Pennsylvania Veterans Museum

To educate the public about the experiences and history of veterans.

Arts & Culture
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National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum Dba National Veterans Art Museum

The national veterans art museum fosters greater understanding of the real impact of war. the museum collects, preserves & exhibits art inspired by combat & created by veterans.

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Old Barracks Association of Trenton New

Preserve the educational use of the old barracks for future generations and continue its historical collections.

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National Civil War Museum

The mission of the National Civil War Museum is to serve as a national center to inspire lifelong learning of the American Civil War through the preservation and balanced presentation of the American peoples struggles for survival and…

Arts & Culture
9
Uss Constitution Museum Inc

The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.

Arts & Culture
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National Wwi Museum and Memorial

The national wwi museum and memorial (museum and memorial) is america's leading institution dedicated to remembering, interpreting and understanding the great war and its enduring impact on the global community. the museum and memorial…

Arts & Culture
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Victoria Mansion

Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion

Arts & Culture
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Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Rehabilitation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Military Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity Food PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…School District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Developmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%57%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/137
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,428

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 136 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
66/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL — $2,464,630 · OtherKATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOLTamassee DAR School Inc — $931,814 · OtherTamassee DAR School IncNATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKS — $380,000 · OtherNATIONAL MALL AND MEMORIAL PARKSNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $350,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYNational Genealogical Society — $250,000 · OtherHOMECOMING 250 NAVY MARINE CORPS — $250,000 · Other+53 more — $1,106,864 · Other+53 moreCROSSNORE SCHOOL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $1,218,998 · EducationCROSSNORE SCHOOL CHILDREN…BERRY COLLEGE INC — $506,500 · EducationBERRY COLLEGE INCHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC — $450,708 · EducationHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL…Hillside School Inc — $426,731 · EducationHillside School IncBACONE COLLEGE — $207,412 · EducationBACONE COLLEGE+4 more — $60,980 · EducationWomens Suffrage National Monument Found — $350,000 · Arts & CultureWomens Suffrage Nati…MISSOURI STATE SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $290,943 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI STATE SOCIE…TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATION…American Battlefield Trust — $237,109 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield…MARIAN ANDERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $220,000 · Arts & CultureMARIAN ANDERSON HIST…WASHINGTON HERITAGE MUSEUMS — $150,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON HERITAGE …The Army Historical Foundation Inc — $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe Army Historical …NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $96,000 · Arts & Culture+36 more — $469,892 · Arts & Culture+36 moreCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $845,494 · Health+2 more — $30,000 · HealthWOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $485,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $60,836 · Public BenefitPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $50,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $50,000 · Public BenefitOperation Rehabilitation — $40,000 · Public BenefitNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY — $30,000 · Public Benefit+4 more — $64,000 · Public BenefitFINAL SALUTE INC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterRobins Home Inc — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterHER FOUNDATION INC — $39,946 · Housing & ShelterSTEPS 4 LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterGenesis Joy House Homeless Shelter Inc — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS LIFE CENTER — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN FOR HEROES INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Veteran's Farm of North Carolina Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES — $15,000 · Human Services
Other$5,733,308Education$2,871,329Arts & Culture$2,313,944Health$875,494Public Benefit$779,836Housing & Shelter$214,946Human Services$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL — $2,464,630 over 8y, 52% of budgetCROSSNORE SCHOOL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — $1,218,998 over 3y, 79% of budgetTamassee DAR School Inc — $931,814 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $845,494 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBERRY COLLEGE INC — $506,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $485,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC — $450,708 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetHillside School Inc — $426,731 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $350,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWomens Suffrage National Monument Found — $350,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNational Genealogical Society — $250,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL — $250,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHOMECOMING 250 NAVY MARINE CORPS — $250,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $237,109 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMARIAN ANDERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $220,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetBACONE COLLEGE — $207,412 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON HERITAGE MUSEUMS — $150,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Society of the Children of the American Revolution — $138,836 over 4y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION — $96,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN YOUTH OF AMERICA INC — $65,459 over 5y, 11% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $60,836 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSA 250 Incorporated — $58,310 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetOperation Rehabilitation — $40,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VETERANS COMFORT HOUSE CORP — $40,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCAMP CORRAL — $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVETERANS WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $40,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetRobins Home Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $39,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS 4 LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetVeterans Multi-Service Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGenesis Joy House Homeless Shelter Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVETERANS LIFE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHAVEN FOR HEROES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William G Pomeroy FoundationNY13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization National Society Daughters of the American Revolution funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 33%
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc44% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit35% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services33% of income from government
  • Wilton Historical Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association1% of income from government
  • National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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