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THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,432 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE ($115,293). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$226k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$140k
Net assets
$452k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What The Citizen Soldiers Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The foundation operates a free admission, open to the public history museum with educational programming and events, hosts civic group meetings and offer traveling lecture series for any who ask. Collect and preserve related artifacts and documents. Over 2000 students and adults were served by these programs.

    $61,955 spent
    62% of program spending
  2. The foundation leads history education tours for students and adults, offers internships for college students and community service hours for scouts, provides educators and schools with teaching resources and programming. Tours offered nationally, education support regionally.

    $22,215 spent$27,300 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  3. The foundation offers veterans programs that provide an annual reunion for current, former members and families, a community 5k race and host a local post of a national veterans organization. We support unit history/heritage programs for new members, alumni and other veterans groups. Available to over 10,000 members, veterans and families.

    $14,970 spent$12,910 earned by the program
    15% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,140.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($170k) Expenses 100 ($158k) Net assets 100 ($154k)2018 Revenue 89 ($152k) Expenses 112 ($177k) Net assets 84 ($129k)2019 Revenue 117 ($198k) Expenses 122 ($193k) Net assets 87 ($134k)2020 Revenue 66 ($111k) Expenses 67 ($105k) Net assets 91 ($141k)2021 Revenue 78 ($132k) Expenses 73 ($115k) Net assets 102 ($157k)2022 Revenue 110 ($186k) Expenses 101 ($159k) Net assets 119 ($184k)2023 Revenue 173 ($293k) Expenses 78 ($123k) Net assets 230 ($355k)2024 Revenue 133 ($226k) Expenses 83 ($132k) Net assets 293 ($452k)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (83)Net assets (293)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $198k to $382k (+93%).

$169k
$132k
$138k
$144k
$164k
$198k
$382k
$452k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
−$25k
’18
$5k
’19
$6k
’20
$16k
’21
$27k
’22
$170k
’23
$95k
’24
13
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

Jimmy Kilbourne Jr

Executive director

Board chair

Theodore G Shuey Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920232024
Listed141415
Joined··+2
No longer listed··1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $30k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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 CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

89% 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 CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

89% of THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC'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. Of the $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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In Virginia

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,432 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE ($115,293). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $140,432 in grants to THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE is the largest funder on record, with $115,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC 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.

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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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