Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds
Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,206 to it, the largest being GivenGain Foundation USA ($81,552). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $268k
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds does
Mission
The military friends foundation recognizes the unique contributions and sacrifices made by massachusetts military and families of the fallen and first responders. We are proud to offer direct grant programs, community support events, case management services and more to eligible families who have faced hardships related to military service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization provides numerous grants and runs a wide array of programs that are designed to benefit military families, veterans and families of fallen service members and first responders based on needs. Each direct grant request is evaluated and a decision is made to help the families in financial hardships. Grants are typically paid to third parties on behalf of the service members and their families.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.0M to $0 (−100%).
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 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 23% · 2020 44% · 2022 30% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Sweeney
Exec dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $19k → $68k.
3 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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
Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 83% · 2020 59% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
15% of Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds has grown faster than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.2M
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 Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds: 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 Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds?
- Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds (Massachusetts) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,206 to it, the largest being GivenGain Foundation USA ($81,552). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $268,206 in grants to Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds?
- GivenGain Foundation USA is the largest funder on record, with $81,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of National Guard & Reserve FamiliesInc DBA Military Friends Fnds find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 27 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