Virginia · Nonprofit
MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC
MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,748 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($104,364). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Veteran service program: veteran service program provides funding for jobs, programs, and other services to veterans and their families.
$563,964 spentof which $25,000 as grants57% of program spendingVeteran's critical assistance grant: to provide emergency financial assistance to eligible veterans and their families.
$268,603 spentof which $268,603 as grants27% of program spendingVeteran service grants: veteran service grants are grants to the moph auxiliary to enable them to provide services to disabled and needy veterans.
$23,177 spentof which $23,177 as grants2% of program spendingAcademic scholarships, service dogs, disaster relief, third party grants, ptsd book and public education.
$131,400 spentof which $131,400 as grants13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $987,144.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $17M to $4.1M (−76%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Stephen L Ruckman
Chief executive officer
Board chair
James M Blaylock
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $128k → $1k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 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
MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
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 MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 45% · 2019 65% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
13% of MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
67% of MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC'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 $90k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
19% 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 51 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION 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 MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC?
- MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,748 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($104,364). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $274,748 in grants to MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $104,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART SERVICE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 17 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