Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,370,819 to it, the largest being THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ($1,075,184). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $34M
What The Society of the Cincinnati does
Mission
The Society of the Cincinnati promotes the memory and the ideals of the american revolution and the men who led the american and french forces to victory in the revolutionary war through museum, library and educational programs at anderson house, the society's headquarters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historic preservation - the society restores and maintains anderson house, which was built in 1905 and has been designated a national historic landmark by the secretary of the interior. Anderson house is a washington, d.c., landmark as well, and one of the best-preserved historic mansions on embassy row.
$1,432,064 spent39% of program spendingMuseum - the society operates anderson house as a museum, open to the public year-round, six days a week. The society maintains and continuously adds to its museum collections, which consist of collections focusing on the american revolution, the history of the society, and the anderson family and anderson house. These collections are accessible to scholars for study, are displayed at anderson house and, through loans, at other institutions, and are presented in various ways on the society's websites. The society mounts a continuous series of temporary museum exhibitions for the public at anderson house and offers virtual exhibitions on its websites.
$1,140,880 spent31% of program spendingEducation and other programs: the society conducts a wide range of educational and other public programs at anderson house and other venues, as well as online at www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org. The society also publishes and distributes educational materials related to these themes in print and online, including books, exhibition catalogs, lesson plans, posters, and facsimiles of primary sources from the library and museum collections. Eight sets of traveling trunks telling the stories of the continental army and the revolutionary war at sea using primary source-based lessons and reproduction clothing and artifacts are circulated at no cost to teachers across the country. A suite of digital resources for teachers and students is featured under the classroom section of our website, including: a full lesson plan series composed by institute staff and master teachers, classroom videos, an online strategy game, revolutionary choices (also available as an app for mobile devices). In the past, the society has published books such as "why america is free", "america's first veterans", and "freedom: the enduring importance of the american revolution." the society also undertakes…
$687,137 spent19% of program spendingLibrary - the society maintains a prominent special collections library at anderson house, devoted primarily to the american revolution and the art of war in the era of the revolutionary war. The library is open to the public five days a week. The society maintains and continuously adds to its library collections, chiefly through the purchase of manuscripts and printed materials books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps and prints. The society has a growing scholarly catalog of these works.
$397,292 spentof which $45,500 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,657,373.
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 2020 to 2021, from $28M to $35M (+26%).
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: 2022 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
F Anderson Morse
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $257k → $412k.
14 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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: $1.4M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati). These are real filings, and they are not money THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI raised.
From the IRS filings of THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 37% · 2019 32% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 39% · 2023 18% — 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
57% of THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 39 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $63k on record.
- Department of the Interior$63k
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 SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI?
- THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,370,819 to it, the largest being THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA ($1,075,184). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $4,370,819 in grants to THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI?
- THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,184 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 80 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