Virginia · Nonprofit
MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE
MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance does
Mission
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance's (mdaa) mission is to advocate the deployment and development of a missile defense system by raising awareness and educating the public with this important issue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mdaa's has been educating the general public on missile defense issues and the need for a missile defense system program. Mdaa has successfully brought the missile defense issue into the public dialogue. Mdaa has worked toward this purpose by engaging in a broad array of advocacy programs. Mdaa conducts media tours, speaking engagements, testimony before state legislatures, and advocates missile defense issues. Mdaa conducts independent polling to reflect public opinion on missile defense issues. Mdaa representatives meet with civic groups, schools, private individuals and corporate groups to heighten awareness of missile defense issues and to advocate for the deployment of a national missile defense system. Mdaa maintains an educational website that provides information on missile defense issues, advocacy, the latest missile defense news, and public opinion polls. Mdaa sends mdaa alert, which is a newsletter distributed via the internet, ot its members and interested persons. This newsletter details the latest news and developments on missile defense issues and is used as an educational, advocacy and recruitment tool by mdaa. Mdaa alert has been issues bi-weekly.
$542,534 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $542,534.
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 $390k to $20k (−95%).
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.
100% of MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Riki Ellison
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE’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
MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
88% 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 MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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
88% of MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE: 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 MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE?
- MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,000 in grants to MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE?
- NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSILE DEFENSE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE 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.
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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 2 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