Virginia · Nonprofit
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 722 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,453,254 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,522,500). 387 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $168M
- Funders on record
- 722
- Grants received
- $80M
- Net assets
- $106M
What United Service Organizations Inc does
Mission
The mission of united service organizations, inc. ("uso") is to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Uso centers - uso centers are the foundation for our connection to the military community and enable the uso to serve as hubs from which to provide outreach support to areas where no physical uso center exists. Uso centers strengthen the wellbeing of service members and their families, and provide a home away from home for them around the world. 2024 continued to present unique challenges as service members were deployed and repositioned throughout europe. Uso centers in the middle east have also been supporting increased service member presence in the region due to the israel-hamas conflict. Uso established new centers in greece, qatar, kosovo, lithuania, bahrain, saudi arabia, and other remote areas to support service members deployed there and engaging in military training exercises with our allies. See schedule o.uso centers provide a home away from home for service members and their families around the world. Uso centers offer an inviting and comforting place where service members and their families can connect by internet or phone, play a video game, catch a movie, have a snack or just put up their feet and relax. During 2024, the uso operated more than 250 locations…
$82,134,416 spent$312,450 earned by the program74% of program spendingPublic awareness and outreach - the uso's marketing and communications outreach programs aim to address the civilian-military drift - a natural disconnect and lack of understanding between those who have served in the military and those whom they defend who have never served and may not know or be related to anyone who has. In september 2023, the uso launched a national broadcast psa campaign reaching the general public that is still ongoing today. The campaign also has a highly targeted media effort designed to reach and build awareness with a younger cohort of potential supporters that can help sustain the uso mission into the future. See schedule o for more details of the accomplishments during 2024.the uso's marketing and communications outreach programs aim to address the civilian-military drift - a natural disconnect and lack of understanding between those who have served in the military and those whom they defend who have never served and may not know or be related to anyone who has. The uso launched a national broadcast psa campaign reaching the general public beginning in september 2023 that has, to date, garnered more than one billion impressions across thousands of…
$14,260,620 spent13% of program spendingService member, military family, and expeditionary programs - uso provides a suite of programs focused on wellness and resiliency for service members and their families. These programs include the uso reading program which keeps service members connected to their children through story-time; uso holidays which provides programming to help service members feel connected and supported during the holidays throughout the year; uso care packages, uso2go and program in a box kits ensure service members deployed to remote locations can enjoy essentials, recreation and comforts of home. See schedule o for more information about the programs offered and accomplishments during 2024. Service member and military family programs uso's military and military family programs provide support and comfort to service members and their families, whether they are deployed, transitioning to civilian life, wounded, ill or injured, or have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Uso reading program the uso reading program keeps service members connected to their children through story-time. Service members can visit a uso center or expeditionary location offering the program, record themselves…
$7,235,937 spentof which $50,000 as grants7% of program spendingEntertaining troops and families since its founding in 1941, the uso's global entertainment department delivers first-class entertainment programming to u.s. Military service members and their families. Partnering with the department of defense and the entertainment and sports industries, the uso brings a wide variety of high visibility celebrities and athletes to military locations worldwide. Through one of a kind, in-person tours and its military virtual programming (mvp) series, online sessions providing celebrities and service members the chance to interact virtually, the uso creates meaningful interactions that uplift and strengthen service members and their families. In 2024, the uso global entertainment team engaged 100 talented individuals for in-person tours and military virtual programming (mvp) sessions. The uso had the honor of working with an incredible range of talent, including jennifer lopez, tyler perry, kevin bacon, chris pratt, and jessica alba - just to name a few.for the first time in history, uso global entertainment hosted a groundbreaking mvp live session with astronauts aboard the international space station, connecting over 3,000 dodea students to an…
$7,443,273 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,074,246.
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 $109M to $123M (+13%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 12% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Dr Jd Crouch Ii
President & CEO
Board chair
Gen David L Goldfein
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 155 funders to 251 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $15M.
98 of 722 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $30M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest USO Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 722 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
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
65% 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 UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 17% · 2019 43% · 2020 25% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 32 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
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC's funding base is broadening — from 155 funders to 251 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 66 public benefit nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $180.0M on record.
- Department of Defense$180.0M
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 UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- USO Foundation · exempt
- USO Deutschland Ev · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS 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 UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC?
- UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 722 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,453,254 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($7,522,500). 387 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 722 organizations giving $80,453,254 in grants to UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC, 387 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,522,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS 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.
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 722 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing