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USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC

USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,649,420 to it, the largest being Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$54M
5/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Uss Missouri Memorial Association Inc does

Mission

The uss missouri memorial association is dedicated to preserving the battleship missouri and sharing her story and place in history.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. What began in 1994 as a project for hawaii's civic leaders, transitioned into the uss missouri memorial association. The board of directors assumed long-term responsibility for the retired uss missouri (bb-63) which opened to the public on january 29, 1999 and has since attracted over 10 million visitors from around the world. The association focuses on three core strategic areas: preservation and restoration, education, and community outreach. Recognized as one of the state's top five paid visitor destinations, the battleship missouri memorial is a significant contributor to the economic vitality of hawaii's visitor industry, the largest driver of the state's gdp. Beyond preservation of the ship, the association looks toward enhanced educational programming and pier upgrades to sustain a world-class visitor experience that is compelling and relevant. In march 2017, the association and the u.s. Navy entered into a 25-year lease ensuring a permanent home in pearl harbor for the battleship missouri. With the lease in place, the association finally has the opportunity to realize the long-held vision to make the battleship missouri memorial the finest historic ship attraction in the…

    $16,666,241 spent$16,313,009 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,666,241.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($38M)2018 Revenue 108 ($16M) Expenses 108 ($14M) Net assets 101 ($38M)2019 Revenue 106 ($16M) Expenses 119 ($15M) Net assets 109 ($41M)2020 Revenue 46 ($7.1M) Expenses 90 ($12M) Net assets 101 ($38M)2021 Revenue 92 ($14M) Expenses 85 ($11M) Net assets 106 ($40M)2022 Revenue 109 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 110 ($42M)2023 Revenue 118 ($18M) Expenses 115 ($15M) Net assets 124 ($47M)2024 Revenue 125 ($19M) Expenses 126 ($16M) Net assets 133 ($50M)2025 Revenue 128 ($20M) Expenses 139 ($18M) Net assets 143 ($54M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (139)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

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 $47M to $41M (−12%).

$40M
$40M
$46M
$47M
$41M
$43M
$49M
$52M
$56M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 810 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’17
$2.4M
’18
$741k
’19
−$4.6M
’20
$2.9M
’21
$3.7M
’22
$3.0M
’23
$2.7M
’24
$1.5M
’25
2.5
months of
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

Michael A Carr

President & CEO

Board chair

Steven W Colon

Chairman of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed202320192121272628
Joined·+7+2+2+3+0+8+1+5
No longer listed·45310223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $259k → $44k.

4 of 15 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.

From the IRS filings of USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC’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

USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

32% 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 USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC.

61%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 63% · 2021 92% · 2022 75% · 2023 57% — 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

22% of USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Hawaii, across 6 states in all.

NY
MA
CA
AZ
HI
TX

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

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Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

HI

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Questions and answers

Who funds USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC?
USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC (Hawaii) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,649,420 to it, the largest being Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation ($1,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,649,420 in grants to USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC?
Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like USS MISSOURI MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 15 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