Virginia · Nonprofit
NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY
NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY (Virginia) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,024,933 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($10,000,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 131
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $168M
What Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society does
Mission
The mission of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society is to build financial stability and well-being for sailors, marines and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Financial assistance program provides interest free loans and grants to active duty and retired navy and marine corps members, dependents and survivors based on financial need.
$21,627,360 spentof which $3,004,613 as grants97% of program spendingVolunteer program provides training, refreshments, recognition, reimbursement for mileage, and child/elder care to volunteers who deliver society services to clients.
$371,562 spent2% of program spendingNon-financial assistance programs provide clients with budget counseling, visiting nurse, budget for baby program, and thrift shop services based on need.
$349,943 spentof which $144,850 as grants$123,101 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,348,865.
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 2021 to 2022, from $160M to $129M (−20%).
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 10% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ltgen Robert R Ruark Usmc Ret
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $700k → $1.6M.
24 of 131 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 131 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
NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 49% · 2019 44% · 2020 38% · 2021 36% · 2022 17% · 2023 46% — 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
47% of NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 144 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: 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 NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY?
- NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY (Virginia) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,024,933 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($10,000,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 131 organizations giving $23,024,933 in grants to NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY 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 131 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