Maine · Nonprofit
Wreaths Across America
Wreaths Across America (Maine) receives grants from 512 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,797,090 to it, the largest being THE TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($1,098,845). 259 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 512
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $-2628722
What Wreaths Across America does
Mission
To remember, honor, and teach. Remember the fallen, honor those who serve and have served and teach our children the value of freedom. Although the wreath laying ceremonies are annual the mission is year round. With the additional teach materials as well as the mobile education exhibit the organization can focus on all aspects continually.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization coordinates the wreath placement and ceremonies with other agencies across the nation to spread the message to Remember, Honor and Teach. The organizations largest project is Arlington National Cemetery but the work also includes cemeteries in all fifty states. The organization also provides the mobile education exhibit and other online resources for the teach part of the mission, as well as providing free curriculum resources. The organization utilizes the radio department to spread awareness of Wreaths Across America and its mission, as well as share stories of service and sacrifice in its honor part of the mission. It partners with other organizations who support veterans and service members and their families in multiple ways.
$37,302,581 spent$42,543,723 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,302,581.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $12M (+39%).
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.
6% of Wreaths Across America’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Karen Worcester
Executive Director
Board chair
Wayne Hanson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 179 funders, grant income rose $297k → $1.3M.
39 of 512 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Wreaths Across America’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 512 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
Wreaths Across America has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
60% 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 Wreaths Across America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 14% · 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% — 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
36% of Wreaths Across America's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
Wreaths Across America draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 47 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
Wreaths Across America has grown faster than half of the 270 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 270 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Wreaths Across America receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record — $16k federal, $200 state.
- Department of the Interior$16k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $200
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 Wreaths Across America
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Wreaths Across America: 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 Wreaths Across America?
- Wreaths Across America (Maine) receives grants from 512 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,797,090 to it, the largest being THE TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($1,098,845). 259 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wreaths Across America have?
- IRS filings report 512 organizations giving $9,797,090 in grants to Wreaths Across America, 259 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wreaths Across America?
- THE TAYLOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,098,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wreaths Across America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 512 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing