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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.3MArts & Culture$3.4MPublic Benefit$661kHuman Services$548kEnvironment$414kHousing & Shelter$275kRecreation & Sports$103kFood & Nutrition$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $3,178,391, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,526,114 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,347,723 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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IN
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VA
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NC
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 12% of National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

26
86

Total granted

$8.9M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+47%

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

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Arts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • BC
    BERRY COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $507k · revenue +36%
  • HS
    HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $451k · revenue +48%

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
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
3
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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
6
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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7
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
8
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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9
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
10
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
11
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
12
Huntington Historical Society

Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/106
Grantees still filing
64/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 SOCIETYHOMECOMING 250 NAVY MARINE CORPS: $250,000 · OtherNational Genealogical Society: $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 BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $50,000 · Public BenefitPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Public BenefitOperation Rehabilitation: $40,000 · Public BenefitNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $30,000 · Public Benefit+4 more: $64,000 · Public BenefitRobins Home Inc: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterFINAL SALUTE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHOMECOMING 250 NAVY MARINE CORPS: $250,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetNational Genealogical Society: $250,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $250,000 over 1y, 10% 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 budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOperation Rehabilitation: $40,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetVETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRobins Home Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCAMP CORRAL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VETERANS COMFORT HOUSE CORP: $40,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetVETERANS WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $40,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetHER FOUNDATION INC: $39,946 over 1y, 28% 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 budgetSTEPS 4 LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY OF MUSIC OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION STAND DOWN RHODE ISLAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVETERANS LIFE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William G Pomeroy…New York Council for …Preservation League o…Donors Trust IncAmica Companies Found…Ibm International Fou…Citizens Charitable F…Rochester Area Commun…Dominion Energy Chari…The Chicago Community…The Ayco Charitable F…The Robert Wood Johns…
The William G Pomeroy FoundationNY13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William G Pomeroy Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · Preservation League of New York State · Donors Trust Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Society Daughters of the American Revolution funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Wilton Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc: 1% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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