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MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND
MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,886,628 to it, the largest being Eugene C and Gail V Sit Foundation ($4,638,400). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund does
Mission
To provide financial assistance to minnesota military personnel and their families who have served in a combat zone since september 11, 2001
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since the inception of the fund, 23,983 grants have been paid. There have been 71 grants totaling 355,000 to the families of soldiers killed in combat and 539 grants totaling 1,078,500 to purple heart wounded soldiers. There have also been 27 grants totaling 54,000 to wounded soldiers that received multiple purple heart awards and 22,921 grants totaling 9,689,250 to soldiers who served in a combat zone. Additionally, pursuant to grant policy, upon medical documentation, a second grant of up to 9,000 was awarded to 425 wounded soldiers totaling 2,344,000.
$145,382 spentof which $113,205 as grants100% of program spendingAssistance to families of soldiers killed in combat. Also assistance to wounded soldiers and soldiers who served in combat.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,382.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $18M (+25%).
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. 0 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.
Board chair
Roger Sit
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $53k → $917k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 55% · 2019 23% · 2020 49% · 2021 59% · 2022 63% · 2023 77% — 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
52% of MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
97% of MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
38% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND: 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 MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND?
- MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,886,628 to it, the largest being Eugene C and Gail V Sit Foundation ($4,638,400). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $6,886,628 in grants to MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND?
- Eugene C and Gail V Sit Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,638,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 38 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