Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC
FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,223 to it, the largest being HRP IMPACT FOUNDATION ($7,143). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $564k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $837k
What Friends of the Chapel of Four Chaplains Inc does
Mission
Friends of the chapel of four chaplains, inc., doing business as the four chaplains memorial foundation (chapel), is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to provide charitable programs that recognize those who go above and beyond selflessly volunteering and supporting veterans with their four programs for four chaplains: 1. Legion of honor awards program; 2. Student scholarship program; 3. Emergency chaplain corps; 4. Veterans outreach programs. The major source of support is contributions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide volunteer services awards, memorial services, essay and art contests and scholarships in the memory of four chaplains.
$195,066 spent$563,993 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,066.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $558k to $876k (+57%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
William J Kaemmer
Executive director
Board chair
Howard Schaeffer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $1k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC’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
FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 90% — 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
FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $547 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC: 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 THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,223 to it, the largest being HRP IMPACT FOUNDATION ($7,143). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $28,223 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC?
- HRP IMPACT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE CHAPEL OF FOUR CHAPLAINS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), 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