Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE MISSION CONTINUES
THE MISSION CONTINUES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,120,037 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,353,274). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Mission Continues does
Mission
We connect military veterans with opportunities to continue their service and leadership in under-resourced communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Mission Continues ceased conducting the service leadership corps and program and thought leadership programs. In september 2025, The Mission Continues merged with the travis manion foundation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Service platoon program - connects veterans in a city to tackle a new mission in their community. Volunteers without previous military service are welcome, and platoons often form partnerships with other community groups. Each platoon is veteran-led, supported by a leadership team, and directed by a platoon leader. Platoon leaders commit to one year of service, participate in leadership training through the service leadership corps, and have access to mentoring and other individual growth opportunities through The Mission Continues' staff and partners.on july 11, 2024, The Mission Continues (tmc) and beneath the service (bts) entered into a partnership...(continued on schedule o)to transition the women veterans leadership program from tmc to bts. Tmc contributed $306,000 in 2025 as part of this transition.
$3,393,752 spentof which $395,200 as grants75% of program spendingMass deployment program- brings veterans from across the country together with community members and local veterans for a week of impact in an under-resourced community. Over seven full days, veterans connect deeply to each other and to a community that is facing significant challenges. Throughout the week, they gain new skills in an experiential learning environment, connecting with their fellow veterans and with the community in which they serve. Through their community impact, they find a renewed sense of purpose. Furthermore, the large infusion of resources into an under-resourced community serves as a catalyst for continued engagement and advocacy by community members. Mass deployment participants return home prepared and energized to lead movements of change in their own local communities.
$1,161,126 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,554,878.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE MISSION CONTINUES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
La Costa Moore
Interim CEO/chief ppl officer
Board chair
Len Kortekaas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 48 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $4.9M.
29 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MISSION CONTINUES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 funders by total. 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 MISSION CONTINUES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 MISSION CONTINUES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 39% · 2019 38% · 2020 37% · 2021 16% · 2022 65% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
37% of THE MISSION CONTINUES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE MISSION CONTINUES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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 MISSION CONTINUES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE MISSION CONTINUES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $258k on record — $258k federal, $733 state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$258k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $733
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 THE MISSION CONTINUES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MISSION CONTINUES: 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 THE MISSION CONTINUES?
- THE MISSION CONTINUES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,120,037 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,353,274). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MISSION CONTINUES have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $46,120,037 in grants to THE MISSION CONTINUES, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MISSION CONTINUES?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,353,274 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MISSION CONTINUES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 135 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