Virginia · Nonprofit
DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE
DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Defense Priorities Initiative does
Mission
To inform citizens, thought leaders, and policy makers of the importance of a strong, dynamic military - used more judiciously to protect America's narrowly defined national interests - and promote a realistic grand strategy prioritizing restraint, diplomacy, and free trade to ensure American security.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Defense Priorities Initiative conducted educational activities in support of its mission such as the creation and distribution of literature discussing these purposes and a website and email list to provide information and education with respect to these purposes.
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.
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 $84k to $70k (−16%).
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.
0% of DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE’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 PRIORITIES INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
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.
Against its field
DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 643 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 643 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Defense Priorities Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE?
- DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE.
- Who is the largest funder of DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE?
- STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEFENSE PRIORITIES INITIATIVE 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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