Maryland · Nonprofit
SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN
SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $389 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($389). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $389
- Net assets
- $99k
What Save Our Seminary at Forest Glen does
Mission
Save Our Seminary (SOS) is a volunteer, nonprofit membership organization formed by preservationists and concerned citizens in 1989 to marshal public and private support and resources to preserve this unique and endangered part of our historical and architectural heritage. SOS's ongoing mission is to communicate the history of the National Park Seminary and promote preservation and public enjoyment of its buildings, artifacts, and landscape. SOS carries out this mission by: 1) Supporting preservation of the buildings of the NPS Historic District, 2) Collecting, preserving, and restoring artifacts related to the history of NPS, 3) Preserving, protecting, and restoring the landscape of NPS including statues, trails, and other features, 4) Communicating NPS history through research, documentation, interpretation, and education, and 5) Promoting public awareness of, support for, and access to this beautiful and unique site.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conduct monthly tours of the grounds of the National Park Seminary campus, a former school for girls opened in 1894 and converted into an extension of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1942. We serve approximately 200-300 persons per year in scheduled monthly tours, requested group tours, and a bi-annual tour of the Glen at National Park Seminary. Printing costs included in accomplishment2, below; they are hard to separate, as many of our handouts are used for multiple purposes.
$0 spent0% of program spendingConduct quarterly lectures/presentations on the history of the National Park Seminary and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Forest Glen Annex campus. Prior to the Covid Pandemic, we served about 150-200 persons per year; with the start of Covid, we switched to an on-line format with a smaller in-person attendance but a much wider viewership through our website, www.saveourseminary.org, where we post recordings of the lectures. Program expenses listed include the cost of hosting the website, and reproduction of handouts for in-person tours.
$142 spent36% of program spendingPreserve the historic statuary and other features of the National Park Seminary, in concert with the current property owners. In FY 22, after several years of fundraising and negotiations with the Maryland Historical Trust, we were finally able to have a historic zinc statue of a Native American restored to its original condition, representing how it looked when it was first placed on the site nearly 100 years ago. You can see a photo of the newly restored statue here: https://saveourseminary.org/news/. After the major expenditures of 2022, we had only minor expenditures for statuary cleaning and software licenses as we raise funds for our next project.
$250 spent64% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $112k to $71k (−37%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $99 → $59.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $389 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Grant$60k
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 SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN: 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 SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN?
- SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $389 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($389). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $389 in grants to SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE OUR SEMINARY AT FOREST GLEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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