Virginia · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA
ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,163,050 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION ($1,163,050). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Association of Military Banks of America does
Mission
The Association of Military Banks of America (amba) is a not-for-profit trade association that represents financial institutions specializing in providing worldwide banking services for military personnel, veterans, and their families. Amba, through its members and with its partners, is committed to improving the financial readiness of the u.s. Military and veteran communities by providing financial products, services, and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, amba continued its partnership with the veterans benefits banking program (vbbp). Vbbp is a program designed to encourage unbanked and underbanked veterans to open bank or credit union checking accounts into which their va monetary benefits can be deposited and managed. The program is intended to help veterans avoid the lack of safety, reliability, and flexibility inherent in the only other ways they can receive their government benefits: prepaid debit cards and paper checks. As of the end of 2025, vbbp is credited with "banking" over 670,000 veterans. We continued to build on the success of vetcents as a component of vbbp, an interactive financial journey connecting veterans with financial education and resources tailored to their needs. As of 2025, vetcents drew responses from more than 2,684 veterans, spouses and beneficiaries. More than half were veterans who answered questions about their finances and went deeper to explore vetcents offerings. From 2024 through the end of 2025, vbbp one-on-one counseling services completed over 4,100 counseling pre-assessments and 1,821 counseling sessions, delivering a wealth of personalized advice.
The amba rebrand was a major step forward for amba, an effort to modernize its identity and sharpen how it communicates its mission of strengthening the financial readiness of service members, veterans, and their families. The project introduced a stronger brand story, a more contemporary look, and a clearer way of expressing amba's leadership in military banking. At the center of this work was a new, user-focused website built to help people quickly understand who amba is, what it offers, and how its programs and advocacy efforts create real impact. Guided by research, member feedback, and a deep dive into how banks and their staff actually use amba's digital resources, amba redesigned the web experience to be more intuitive, accessible, and engaging. Navigation is cleaner, information is easier to find, and the site better highlights the value amba delivers every day. The rebrand also reimagined amba's annual workshop, the military banking summit, into a more energetic, future-facing event now fully woven into the website. Together, these updates give amba a sharper voice, a stronger digital foundation, and a renewed sense of momentum as it leads the next era of military banking.
Amba held its inaugural military banking summit, mbs2025 (formerly the fall workshop), a reimagined and redesigned capstone event that brought together all stakeholders - member banks, military and veteran service organizations, government and regulatory officials, industry service providers, and innovators to address the most pressing issues and opportunities associated with military banking. The event provided a platform for shaping financial outcomes for military and veteran communities, enabling smarter support, and building shared understanding.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.6M to $9.6M (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Omuso George
President & CEO
Board chair
Kelly Hughes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Amba Services Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA?
- ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,163,050 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION ($1,163,050). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,163,050 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA?
- AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,163,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY BANKS OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing