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RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES

RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$6.5M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Reserve Officers Association of the United States does

Mission

To support u.s. National security through a focus on the reserve components.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide oversight and management of property to maintain building performance by focusing on operational efficiencies, safety and regulatory compliance, and overall tenant and conference facility satisfaction.

  2. Roa's communications execute its primary function through a variety of platforms tasked with raising awareness for roa's mission, providing information to current members, and engaging new constituencies. Communications are a vital part of roa's mission to support reserve service members nationally through its in-house magazine, website, newsletters, advertisement and marketing. Roa executes its communications strategy as a means to gain traction for current association initiatives, while maintaining a dialogue representative of the needs of today's serving reservists.

  3. The roa national convention is the business meeting dictated by our constitution and bylaws for the business of the association.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 70 ($1.9M) Expenses 94 ($1.5M) Net assets 107 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 76 ($2.0M) Expenses 91 ($1.5M) Net assets 117 ($6.2M)2020 Revenue 88 ($2.3M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 118 ($6.2M)2021 Revenue 87 ($2.3M) Expenses 96 ($1.5M) Net assets 143 ($7.5M)2022 Revenue 34 ($888k) Expenses 104 ($1.7M) Net assets 106 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 47 ($1.2M) Expenses 110 ($1.8M) Net assets 120 ($6.3M)2024 Revenue 61 ($1.6M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 124 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (61)Expenses (103)Net assets (124)

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 $18M to $19M (+10%).

$16M
$17M
$17M
$18M
$18M
$17M
$18M
$19M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’17
$343k
’18
$526k
’19
$732k
’20
$729k
’21
−$778k
’22
−$527k
’23
−$53k
’24
2.9
months of
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

Mg Jeffrey E Phillips Usa Ret

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed231922312681214
Joined·+13+4+10+4+6+6+5
No longer listed·171192423
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES’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

RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98% 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 RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

98% of RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

DC
FL

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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $167k on record.

Federal$167k
grants $0contracts $167k
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25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$167k

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 RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Top of the Hill · disregarded
  • Henry J Reilly Memorial Library and Scholarship Fund · exempt
  • Reserve Officers Association Memorial Endowment Trust Fund · exempt
  • Roa Standing Together for America's Reservists Foundation (Stars) · exempt
  • Defense Education Trust Fund · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES: 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 RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES?
RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,500 in grants to RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Who is the largest funder of RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES?
AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RESERVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing