Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY
DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY (Delaware) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,113,497 to it, the largest being Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation ($800,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $-9589911
What Delaware Military Academy does
Mission
The mission of the Delaware Military Academy is to prepare young men and women for their next level of education and to provide them with a foundation that leads to good citizenship. In addition, we will furnish them with a healthy mental and physical environment with military training as a requisite for a better understanding of the obligations of citizenship and self-discipline and to afford them opportunities for proper social activities and exposure to moral ideas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The navy junior reserve officer training corps ("njrotc") - this program is conducted at accredited secondary schools throughout the nation, by instructors who are retired navy, marine corps, and coast guard officers and enlisted personnel. Classroom instruction is augmented throughout the year by community services activities, drill competition, field meets, flights, visits to naval activities and service academies, marksmanship training, and other military training. Uniforms, textbooks, training aids, and travel allowance are provided by the navy. Through the navy jrotc program, the cadets have numerous opportunities to develop their leadership skills and advance their rank throughout their four years at the academy. The Delaware Military Academy is rated by the navy as a distinguished unit with academic honors. Our fully accredited college preparatory program is comprehensive and rigorous and successfully prepares our graduates for their next level of education. As of the class of 2025, dma has graduated 2,502 cadets who have earned in excess of 195 million dollars in scholarship monies. Eighty-six percent of our dma graduates chose to enter a post-secondary program of study…
$7,326,721 spent$599,116 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,326,721.
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 2020 to 2021, from $28M to $32M (+15%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 70% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 89% · 2021 69% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 89% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Brian Rostocki
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $257k → $152k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY’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
DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 82% · 2019 90% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 66% · 2023 66% — 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
98% of DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- DEBT SRVCE/INT & OTHER CHARGE$1.3M
- PERMIT/CERTS/TRANS/MISFEE/LICS$548k
- ATHLETIC SERVICES$13k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$12k
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$10k
- OPERATING SUPPLIES$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY: 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 DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY?
- DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY (Delaware) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,113,497 to it, the largest being Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation ($800,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,113,497 in grants to DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY?
- Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE MILITARY ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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