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THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC

THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,979,511 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,064,850). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$14M
Revenue FY2025
43
Funders on record
$33M
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
25/43 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.6M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 318 ($21M) Expenses 84 ($7.0M) Net assets 228 ($24M)2019 Revenue 148 ($9.8M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets 258 ($27M)2020 Revenue 91 ($6.1M) Expenses 224 ($19M) Net assets 133 ($14M)2021 Revenue 128 ($8.5M) Expenses 185 ($15M) Net assets 79 ($8.4M)2022 Revenue 77 ($5.1M) Expenses 67 ($5.6M) Net assets 68 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 142 ($9.4M) Expenses 63 ($5.2M) Net assets 110 ($12M)2024 Revenue 92 ($6.1M) Expenses 58 ($4.8M) Net assets 137 ($15M)2025 Revenue 218 ($14M) Expenses 65 ($5.4M) Net assets 230 ($25M)
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Revenue (218)Expenses (65)Net assets (230)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
17
$14M
18
$1.5M
19
$13M
20
$6.9M
21
$485k
22
$4.2M
23
$1.3M
24
$9.0M
25
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $380k → $8.6M.

14 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% 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: $727k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United States Naval Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43% 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 NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC.

27%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 55% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 24% · 2022 31% · 2023 63%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

52% of THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 18 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
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23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 5%Fundraising 22%

Governance

13
board members
85%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • United States Naval Institute · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: 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 NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC?
THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,979,511 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,064,850). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $32,979,511 in grants to THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,064,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing