Virginia · Nonprofit
PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC
PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,188,916 to it, the largest being DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $855k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Pentagon Memorial Fund Inc does
Mission
Raise funds for the construction and maintenance of the pentagon memorial and a visitor education center as well as educate the public about the events and impact of the terrorist attacks on september 11, 2001.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pentagon memorial maintenance:the fund supports the yearly maintenance of the pentagon memorial.
$350,000 spentof which $350,000 as grants43% of program spendingVisitor education center:the pentagon memorial fund continues to focus on developing education resources that enhance the visitors' experience at the memorial by helping them understand the 9/11 events, the historic significance of the memorial site and the unique elements of the pentagon memorial.
$289,464 spent36% of program spendingEducation and outreach:continuing efforts to educate and inform the public on the events of 9/11 as they relate to the attack on the pentagon.
$169,924 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $809,388.
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 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $17M (+15%).
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.
22% of PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Michael J Mccarthy
Executive director
Board chair
Sean T Connaughton
Board chair & president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $90k → $1.3M.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC’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
PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 55% · 2018 60% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 62% · 2023 100% — 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
25% of PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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
PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.0M on record.
- Department of Defense$12.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND 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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
14%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND 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 PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC?
- PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,188,916 to it, the largest being DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,188,916 in grants to PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC?
- DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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