Virginia · Nonprofit
THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC
THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,646 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,610). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What The Army Retirement Residence Foundation - Potomac does
Mission
The foundation acts to insure the strength of our community and quality of our residence. It serves all residents in meaningful ways- from providing a supportive, beautiful environment, to helping residents in financial need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Aid in the provision of retirement residences for retired officers and their spouses from the u.s. Uniformed services, cia, fbi, foreign service and other fedral agencies as well as parents of active and retired military personnel and civilians. Acts as a sponsor of the firfax lifecare retirement community (the fairfax), in coordination with sunrise assisted living, inc. (sunrise), the current operator.
$207,650 spentof which $107,105 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $207,650.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $4.6M to $4.0M (−14%).
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.
55% of THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Diana Cardwell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC’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
THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2020 80% · 2021 57% · 2022 67% · 2023 84% — 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
79% of THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC
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
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC?
- THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,646 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,610). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $18,646 in grants to THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARMY RETIREMENT RESIDENCE FOUNDATION - POTOMAC 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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