California · Nonprofit
Defense Language Institute Foundation
Defense Language Institute Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $201 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($201). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $201
- Net assets
- $21k
What Defense Language Institute Foundation does
Mission
To advance the mission of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and support its alumni community.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
In FY 2017-18, the DLI Foundation continued growth of its alumni membership through alumni-centric outreach and events. The Foundation conducted more than 25 official DLI tours for alumni members and their families. The Foundation served as the sponsor organization for the 242nd United States Army Ball for the DLIFLC and Presidio of Monterey Army Garrison. Foundation leadership presented at 5 major conferences promoting foreign language application throughout military operations affecting national security.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs 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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $23k to $22k (−5%).
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.
599% of Defense Language Institute Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $54 → $37.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Defense Language Institute 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Defense Language Institute 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201 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
Defense Language Institute Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 13,429 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,429 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like Defense Language Institute 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Defense Language Institute 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 Defense Language Institute Foundation?
- Defense Language Institute Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $201 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($201). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Defense Language Institute Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $201 in grants to Defense Language Institute Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Defense Language Institute Foundation?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Defense Language Institute Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), 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