Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER
GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,457 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($59,550). 3 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 FY2025
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Ghost Army Legacy Project Inc % Mr Rick Beyer does
Mission
To honor and preserve the legacy of the men who served in the 23rd headquarters special troops (the ghost army) during world war ii. To increase public awareness about the unit's unique achievements through exhibitions and historical artifacts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Archive accomplishments: continued to expand and maintain web-based digital archive. Continued to collect ghost army materials from families in order to add to our existing collection of letters and documents to the substantial primary source material on the website.
$9,085 spent43% of program spendingOutreach accomplishments: continued to consult on new ghost army displays traveling throughout the country in collabration with the national wwii museum, provide support for the ghost army traveling exhibit, and to continue to generate media coverage and public awareness of the ghost army. The exhibit will open at the texas tech university in lubbock texas, scheduled to move to the new york state museum in albany, new york and end at the washington state history museum in tacoma washington.
$9,355 spent45% of program spendingEducation accomplishments: continued to assist students with ghost army projects for national history day. Beginning january, 2026 galp launched a research and creative grant initiative program to support and expand an understanding of the unique contributions made by two wwii tactical units
$2,560 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,000.
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 $60k to $44k (−28%).
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.
92% of GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Richard Mark
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $125 → $21k.
3 of 4 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 GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER’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
GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 63% · 2021 64% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER'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. Of the $125 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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
GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER?
- GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,457 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($59,550). 3 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 GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $90,457 in grants to GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $59,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GHOST ARMY LEGACY PROJECT INC % MR RICK BEYER 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.
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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 4 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