Texas · Nonprofit
ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION
ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,324,852 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,055,250). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Admiral Nimitz Foundation does
Mission
Operate and support the state-owned museum experience through its extensive collection to educate and inspire present and future generations about world war ii in the asiatic pacific theater and the relevance of its lessons and the effects worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum support: the organization oversees and manages, under agreement with the texas historical commission, the national museum of the pacific war. Visitation attendance in 2025 was 108,000.in addition to ordinary operations during 2025, Admiral Nimitz Foundation renovated and expanded the bush gallery and started planning for an expansion of the education department.
$14,828,420 spent$1,453,734 earned by the program95% of program spendingRetail sales:the organization oversees and manages a museum store and a bookstore that sells references and souvenirs relating to the history of world war ii in the pacific.
$424,170 spent$396,867 earned by the program3% of program spendingMemorials and memberships:the organization is supported by over 1,000 members and continues to expand a memorial wall of plaques in honor of world war ii heroes and a walk of engraved bricks that honors all men and women who have served.
$298,805 spent$235,525 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,551,395.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $22M to $28M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 4% · 2019 9% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 35% · 2023 29% · 2024 37% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rorie Cartier Phd
President/CEO [from 10/25]
Board chair
Greg Shrader
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 31 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $554k.
14 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 41% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record — $25k federal, $50 state.
- Department of the Interior$25k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION?
- ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,324,852 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,055,250). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $5,324,852 in grants to ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,055,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing