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Marion Military Institute Foundation

Marion Military Institute Foundation (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,032,016 to it, the largest being WILLIAM BALDWIN YUNG CHARITABLE TRUST ($4,549,251). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$49M
6/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Marion Military Institute Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the Foundation is to establish endowments and other forms of support to benefit scholarships, capital improvements, public relations, recruitment and the good name of Marion Military Institute.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support for Marion Military Institute.

    $3,289,615 spentof which $3,085,578 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,289,615.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($8.7M)2018 Revenue 34 ($1.6M) Expenses 98 ($2.2M) Net assets 98 ($8.5M)2019 Revenue 23 ($1.0M) Expenses 59 ($1.3M) Net assets 98 ($8.5M)2020 Revenue 20 ($893k) Expenses 65 ($1.4M) Net assets 97 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 128 ($5.8M) Expenses 59 ($1.3M) Net assets 162 ($14M)2022 Revenue 699 ($32M) Expenses 83 ($1.9M) Net assets 434 ($38M)2023 Revenue 25 ($1.1M) Expenses 94 ($2.1M) Net assets 469 ($41M)2024 Revenue 55 ($2.5M) Expenses 210 ($4.7M) Net assets 538 ($47M)2025 Revenue 23 ($1.0M) Expenses 152 ($3.4M) Net assets 559 ($49M)
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Revenue (23)Expenses (152)Net assets (559)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $38M (+164%).

$8.9M
$8.8M
$8.8M
$8.7M
$14M
$38M
$41M
$47M
$49M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

47% of Marion Military Institute Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’17
−$619k
’18
−$278k
’19
−$555k
’20
$4.5M
’21
$30M
’22
−$965k
’23
−$2.2M
’24
−$2.3M
’25
0.4
months of
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

Suzanne Mckee

Executive Director

Board chair

Edward A O'Neal Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181818191621171717
Joined·+2+0+2+2+5+0+0+0
No longer listed·20150400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $1.3M.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Marion Military Institute Foundation’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

Marion Military Institute Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 77% · 2022 89% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

22% of Marion Military Institute Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

98% of Marion Military Institute Foundation's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

IL
CA
VA
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Marion Military Institute Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−223% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−17% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Marion Military Institute Foundation

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 Alabama

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 2%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

47%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Marion Military Institute · exempt
  • MMI Alumni Brigade · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Marion Military Institute Foundation?
Marion Military Institute Foundation (Alabama) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,032,016 to it, the largest being WILLIAM BALDWIN YUNG CHARITABLE TRUST ($4,549,251). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Marion Military Institute Foundation have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $5,032,016 in grants to Marion Military Institute Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Marion Military Institute Foundation?
WILLIAM BALDWIN YUNG CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,549,251 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Marion Military Institute Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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