Virginia · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,445 to it, the largest being ALLEGIS GROUP FOUNDATION INC ($154,180). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $602k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $305k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Society of American Military Engineers Foundation does
Mission
To support the educational and scientific purposes of the society of american military engineers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Society of American Military Engineers Foundation (the foundation) provides a secure and beneficial repository for charitable contributions and other bequeaths from members of same and the public at large, in furtherance of the purposes and objectives of same. The foundation's purpose is to foster engineering leadership for the nation, specifically focusing on supporting military engineers, and national security stem.
$279,387 spentof which $241,803 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $279,387.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $3.5M (+50%).
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.
94% of SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 Wehr
Executive director
Board chair
Tim Byers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $42k → $135k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $988k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Society of American Military Engineers). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION’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
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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: 2022 59% · 2023 37% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Society of American Military Engineers · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION: 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 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION?
- SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,445 to it, the largest being ALLEGIS GROUP FOUNDATION INC ($154,180). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $305,445 in grants to SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION?
- ALLEGIS GROUP FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION 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 7 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