Virginia · Nonprofit
THE MOAA FOUNDATION
THE MOAA FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,035,188 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($530,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $488k
What The Moaa Foundation does
Mission
Carry on charitable and educational programs for active duty military, reserve, national guard, retired, and former members of the uniformed services and their family members and surviving spouses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Career transition/professional education outreach:through The Moaa Foundation career transition track, moaa delivers best-in-class career development programs. Due to funding provided by the foundation, services are free and open to the broader uniformed services and veteran communities. In 2025, moaa experts provided award winning career transition assistance and education resources for free both in-person and in virtual settings. In total, the foundation supported the following virtual and in-person events:4 seminars, 13 workshops, 42 webinars, 7 virtual career fairs, and 1 in-person networking event at total force+.
$662,666 spent47% of program spendingCrisis relief program:The Moaa Foundation's crisis relief program provides small financial grants to uniformed service members, veterans, and their families affected by natural disasters or other crises. Grants address urgent needs including rent, utilities, groceries, and damaged property- filling a critical gap for those not served by other relief agencies. The program is open to members of all branches of the all-volunteer force, regardless of length of service, who are currently serving or received an honorable discharge. In the reporting year, the foundation awarded $434,501 in grants to 277 recipients.
$545,681 spentof which $434,501 as grants39% of program spendingCommunity outreach program: the community outreach grant (cog) program provides grant funding to moaa councils and chapters nationwide to deliver direct assistance to uniformed service members and veteran families in their local communities. Grants support high-impact programs addressing critical needs at the community level, leveraging moaa's extensive chapter network to extend the foundation's reach across the country. In 2025, all qualifying applicants received funding. The foundation awarded $119,833 to 41 chapters.
$175,462 spentof which $119,833 as grants12% of program spendingCaregiver program
$18,760 spent1% of program spendingMilitary spouse professional development
$12,544 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,415,113.
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 2022 to 2023, from $508k to $1.7M (+238%).
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.
103% of THE MOAA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Lt Gen Brian T Kelly
President/CEO
Board chair
Adm James G Foggo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $251k → $125k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $2.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Military Officers Association of America). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MOAA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MOAA 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
THE MOAA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% 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 MOAA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 62% · 2021 92% · 2022 59% · 2023 64% — 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
50% of THE MOAA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 MOAA FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MOAA FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE MOAA 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Military Officers Association of America · exempt
- Military Officers Association of America Scholarship Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MOAA FOUNDATION?
- THE MOAA FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,035,188 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($530,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MOAA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,035,188 in grants to THE MOAA FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MOAA FOUNDATION?
- Democracy Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MOAA 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 18 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