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US Naval Sea Cadet Corps
US Naval Sea Cadet Corps (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,067,137 to it, the largest being NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES ($2,689,052). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What US Naval Sea Cadet Corps does
Mission
Sea Cadets gives young men and women skills, knowledge, and confidence to become productive, responsible American citizens with an appreciation for the maritime services: Marine Corps, Merchant Marine, Coast Guard, and Navy. Middle school and high school aged cadets train in a disciplined environment where they learn values of honor, respect, commitment, and service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To develop maritime appreciation and knowledge, employment skills, civic responsibility, and leadership skills, Sea Cadets provides a variety of hands-on learning experiences in a highly structured environment. The discipline cadets learn prepares them for both advanced education and employment.We train 5,600+ youth annually at 326 units in 46 states, Guam and Puerto Rico. Our diverse program includes seamanship, sailing, aviation, navigation, law enforcement, security, building robots, medical, STEM, SCUBA, submarines, photography, culinary, special forces training, and an International Exchange Program. Our cadets train on Navy and Coast Guard bases, wear uniforms, adhere to fitness and grooming standards, and are held to the highest standards of behavior. Our military culture stresses concepts of duty, service and self-sacrifice, which are the foundation of good leadership. At young ages, our cadets are given leadership opportunities by staffing summer training events, planning unit drill sessions, and teaching others.
$7,312,372 spentof which $6,400 as grants$2,506,146 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,312,372.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.3M to $5.5M (+66%).
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 50% · 2018 68% · 2019 64% · 2020 74% · 2021 74% · 2022 73% · 2023 67% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Andrew Lennon
Executive Director
Board chair
Lynn Atkinson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $472k → $662k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest U S Naval Sea Cadet Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money US Naval Sea Cadet Corps raised.
From the IRS filings of US Naval Sea Cadet Corps’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
US Naval Sea Cadet Corps leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 US Naval Sea Cadet Corps.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 90% · 2019 74% · 2020 79% · 2021 90% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% — 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
30% of US Naval Sea Cadet Corps's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
72% of US Naval Sea Cadet Corps's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding US Naval Sea Cadet Corps receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.7M on record.
- Department of Defense$55.7M
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 US Naval Sea Cadet Corps
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for US Naval Sea Cadet Corps: 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 US Naval Sea Cadet Corps?
- US Naval Sea Cadet Corps (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,067,137 to it, the largest being NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES ($2,689,052). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does US Naval Sea Cadet Corps have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $4,067,137 in grants to US Naval Sea Cadet Corps, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of US Naval Sea Cadet Corps?
- NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $2,689,052 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like US Naval Sea Cadet Corps 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.
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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 19 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