Maryland · Nonprofit
BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION
BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,549 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Blue Valor Foundation does
Mission
Assist the families of fallen law enforcement officers throughout the state of Maryland.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Blue Valor Fallen Officer Program Benefits provided to the families of fallen officers. Persons Benefited Two (2).
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $12k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 VALOR FOUNDATION’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 VALOR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“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
68% of BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Against its field
BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,634 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,634 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2017
Organizations like BLUE VALOR 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 Maryland
Nationally
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION: 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 BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION?
- BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,549 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,549 in grants to BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE VALOR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2 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