Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS
UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,290,102 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,180,803). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What United States Foundation for the Commemoration of World Wars does
Mission
The organization's mission is to keep faith with the american doughboy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The united states foundation for the commemoration of the world wars d/b/a the doughboy foundation has the mission to "keep faith with the doughboys and endeavors to educate americans about the impact of world war I, to commemorate the service of the 5 million americans who served during the war, and to honor the 116,516 americans who did not return home. Working with partner organizations, the foundation raised funds for the national world war I memorial in washington, dc. In 2024, the foundation had three accompanying commemorative initiatives for the memorial. First, the foundation carries out a daily program of taps at the memorial. Every evening, a bugler in doughboy uniform plays taps - the distinctive melody played at us military funerals and memorials - in honor of the americans who served in the great war. The program launched on may 24, 2021 and the memorial is one of only three world war I memorial worldwide to do so. The foundation aims to continue this program in perpetuity.second, the foundation developed and has distributed two free companion smartphone apps for the memorial - an app for offsite visitors and an app for onsite visitors. Both apps make heavy use of…
$3,618,335 spentof which $324,016 as grants$3,223,857 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,618,335.
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 2018 to 2019, from $12M to $22M (+90%).
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: 2018 14% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jari Villanueva
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $762k → $594k.
6 of 24 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.
From the IRS filings of UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS’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
UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 50% · 2021 41% · 2022 58% · 2023 84% — 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
23% of UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M 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
UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS's revenue fell 46% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $299k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$299k
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 STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS: 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 STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS?
- UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,290,102 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,180,803). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $10,290,102 in grants to UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,180,803 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS 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.
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 24 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