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SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48,200 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($48,200). 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 FY2025
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $555k
What Society of American Military Engineers - R I Post Attn Brad Palmer does
Mission
To promote and faciliate engineering support for national security by developing and enhancing relationships and competencies among the uniformed services, public and private sector engineers, and related professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Awarded scholarships to graduating high school students pursuing a degree in engineering - 18 total scholarships were provided.
$27,174 spent41% of program spendingSmall business conference.
$22,992 spent35% of program spendingEngineering training conference - hosted an engineering training conference to help society members and other attendees earn continuing education units for maintaining their professional license. Approximately 180 attendees.
$9,446 spent14% of program spendingDonation to support the scholarship program of quad city engineering and science council - a local organization that seeks to promote the sciences and facilitate interaction between local professional societies.
$2,500 spent4% of program spendingMonthly education meetings - each monthly meeting features a guest lecturer to speak on various engineering-related topics. Average monthly attendance is 66 members and guests.
$1,980 spent3% of program spendingLeadership conference participation.
$1,026 spent2% of program spendingSponsored one high school student to attend the society of american military engineers summer engineering and construction camp/us air force academy camp. Sponsorship included camp tuition/attendance and travel costs. Also paid travel costs for camp mentorship.
$800 spent1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,918.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $472k to $555k (+18%).
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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $13k.
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 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER’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 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER'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. $48k 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER?
- SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48,200 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($48,200). 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 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $48,200 in grants to SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER?
- QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS - R I POST ATTN BRAD PALMER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 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