Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Modern Military Association of America
Modern Military Association of America (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,626 to it, the largest being PFLAG ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $373k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $318k
What Modern Military Association of America does
Mission
Modern Military Association of America MMAA is the nation's only organization exclusively focused on serving the larger LGBTQ+ military community of service members, military spouses, veterans and their families. We are unique from other military and veteran service organizations as well as LGBTQ+ organizations, in that we have expert LGBTQ+ knowledge and competencies alongside unique knowledge, understanding, and networks within DoD, DHA, VA, and military systems and policies as they relate to the military and veteran communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
MMAA expanded its services with MMAA Strong Communities, a second support group, modeled after the Military Communities monthly meeting hosted in partnership with PFLAG. We updated the content of our Rainbow Shield Competency training sessions. We launched the LGBTQ+ and HIV discrimination reporting form to track data and help provide specialized support. MMAA joined the Veteran Pride Suicide Prevention Coalition (VPSPC) as a founding member, helping to implement its inaugural event - a drag show featuring service members and veterans to build awareness for veteran suicide prevention. This work expanded MMAA's services around veteran suicide prevention.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
LGBTQ+ MILITARY AND VETERAN SERVICES: MMAA supports the LGBTQ+ service members, veterans, and their families with specialized resource and advocacy guides, individualized support, MilPride programming, Strong Communities monthly meetings, participation in Pride activities (e.g., DC's Capital Pride march and festival), information sharing at conferences, tabling opportunities, legal referral sources, chapter management tools, and discrimination reporting tools. MMAA also maintained and built new relationships with military and veteran service organizations, Congressional offices, and coalition groups.
$147,302 spentof which $33,708 as grants41% of program spendingLEGAL & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS: MMAA continued its impact litigation joining other LGBTQ+ advocates to file multiple lawsuits ranging from transgender service members rights to petitioning VA to establish anti-discrimination regulations. MMAA utilized the new LGBTQ+ and HIV discrimination reporting form to track discrimination, provide specialized support for those facing discrimination, and amplify the issues facing military members and veterans to DoD, VA, and Congress. MMAA presented Congress with an updated legislative agenda that included new issues related to DoD's Drag Ban, anti-discrimination riders in appropriations bills, and ensuring culturally competent LGBTQ+ care in VA facilities.
$119,841 spent33% of program spendingCOMMUNICATIONS: In 2023, MMAA amplified stories of LGBTQ+ service members, veterans, and their families through press releases, media interviews, and Modern Military magazine. MMAA added new tools so individuals can more easily recognize LGBTQ+ military hometown heroes, shining star allies, share testimonials about the impact of the Drag Ban, and submit an MMAA Op-Ed. MMAA released a newly updated Freedom to Serve Guide, expanding upon the last update from 2018. MMAA published three Modern Military magazine issues, regular e-newsletter updates, and shared updates with its 50,000+ email subscribers, 100,000+ social media followers, and 25,000+ website visitors.
$93,791 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $360,934.
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 2017 to 2018, from $630k to $143k (−77%).
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: 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Modern Military Association of America’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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
Joshua Fontanez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $26k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Modern Military Association of America’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
Modern Military Association of America leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 Modern Military Association of America.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2020 51% · 2021 69% · 2022 98% — diversifying over time.
“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
0% of Modern Military Association of America's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 14% 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 FY2022, 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
78% of Modern Military Association of America's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Modern Military Association of America is better cushioned than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Modern Military Association of 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Modern Military Association of 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 Modern Military Association of America?
- Modern Military Association of America (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,626 to it, the largest being PFLAG ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Modern Military Association of America have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $228,626 in grants to Modern Military Association of America, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Modern Military Association of America?
- PFLAG is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Modern Military Association of America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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