Virginia · Nonprofit
WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,221,007 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ($485,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to educate and engage the public in the past, present and future of women's military service. Supported by our collections, our innovative exhibitions and public programs, we educate and inspire visitors with stories of women's service and leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule othe foundation's largest program service, the memorial education center, is the only national historical repository documenting the contributions and service of all military women. Welcoming more than 100,000 visitors annually, we educate and inspire through innovative and interactive exhibitions using our unique world-class collections. Beyond our exhibits, the memorial education center offers engaging programs and events for all generations. Our theater hosts free educational programs and film screenings of major documentaries that highlight the service of military women, including "the six triple eight: no mail, low morale" the amazing story of the only all-black army postal battalion in world war ii. Educational tours, meanwhile, are often based on visitor characteristics for individuals, honor flights, school groups, and both domestic and international tour groups. Due to the global pandemic, we leveraged digital technology, expanding our educational programming to a global audience. Digital technology also enabled new programming, such as "herstory," where we interview and highlight the stories of military women whose careers and contributions provide inspiring…
$4,291,398 spent$552,353 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,291,398.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $15M (+29%).
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 28% · 2018 36% · 2019 52% · 2020 42% · 2021 38% · 2022 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Mg Jeanette Edmunds Usa Ret
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $41k → $496k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
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 WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 86% · 2019 73% · 2020 39% · 2021 48% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $928k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$3.1M
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 WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 49 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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 WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC?
- WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,221,007 to it, the largest being NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ($485,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,221,007 in grants to WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION is the largest funder on record, with $485,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN IN MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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.
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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 34 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