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BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC

BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,566 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$56k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$209k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Blue Star Salute Foundation Inc does

Mission

Promote patriotism and honor those who serve, have served, and our fallen heroes by fostering and conducting appropriate honors and respect ceremonies statewide.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Promote patriotism by giving banners and flags to families being deployed and to honor all service men and women on armed forces day and donations to va nursing homes and veteran's organizations - to honor veterans and wounded veterans of their past military service.

    $10,170 spent
    17% of program spending
  2. Wreaths across america - providing wreaths at graves of fallen veterans

    $48,875 spent
    83% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,045.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2020 Revenue 56 ($57k) Expenses 63 ($60k) Net assets 97 ($98k)2021 Revenue 99 ($102k) Expenses 55 ($53k) Net assets 145 ($146k)2022 Revenue 74 ($76k) Expenses 61 ($58k) Net assets 163 ($164k)2023 Revenue 84 ($86k) Expenses 59 ($56k) Net assets 192 ($194k)2024 Revenue 55 ($56k) Expenses 42 ($40k) Net assets 208 ($209k)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (55)Expenses (42)Net assets (208)Peer revenue range

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 $98k to $146k (+50%).

$101k
$98k
$146k
$164k
$194k
$209k
201720202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

77% of BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$7k
’17
−$2k
’20
$49k
’21
$18k
’22
$30k
’23
$16k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $375 → $316.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC’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.

How concentrated its funding is

BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.

Where its funders are

95% of BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

WI
AL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC?
BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,566 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $19,566 in grants to BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC?
ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE STAR SALUTE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 5 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