Virginia · Nonprofit
YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE
YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,375 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,225). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Young Marines of the Marine Corps League does
Mission
The mission of young marines is to positively impact america's future by providing quality youth development programs for boys and girls that nurture and develop its members into responsible citizens who enjoy and promote a healthy, drug-free lifesytle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth and adult programs - the organization holds youth programs that are aimed to promote the mental, moral and physical development of young americans by providing a variety of activities designed to develop self-esteem, discipline, confidence and a drug-free lifestyle. Additionally, the organization holds adult programs that are aimed to help train supervisors to run youth programs and aid in the development of young americans.
$5,038,779 spent$804,187 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,038,779.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.1M to $4.4M (−28%).
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 55% · 2018 57% · 2019 57% · 2020 58% · 2021 67% · 2022 59% · 2023 34% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
William L Smith
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $47k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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: $258k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Young Marines National Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 62% · 2021 83% · 2022 52% · 2023 26% — 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
27% of YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE'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
74% of YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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.
Government funding YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.0M on record.
- Department of Defense$20.0M
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 YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE
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
89% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Young Marines National Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE?
- YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,375 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($67,225). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $228,375 in grants to YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing