Association of the United States Army
Arlington, VA · EIN 53-0193361. Reported 87 grants totalling $6,170,468 to 52 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Association of the United States Army, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W030) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 32% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $127,899 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army Emergency Relief | Arlington, VA | $2,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| US Army | Washington, DC | $1,531,044 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | Rockville, MD | $751,285 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Army 10 Miler | Washington, DC | $380,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Armed Services YMCA of the USA | Woodbridge, VA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| US Army Military District of Washington (mdw) Army Ten-Miler Fund | Washington, DC | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy | West Point, NY | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Armed Forces YMCA Fort Bragg | Fayetteville, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Armed Services YMCA El Paso | El Paso, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eangus We Care for America | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alabama Center of Military History US Veterans Memorial Museum | Huntsville, AL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Army Scholarship Foundation Inc | Dallas, TX | $48,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Some Gave All the Joey Graves Foundation Inc | Discovery Bay, CA | $43,740 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Christmas House Inc | Augusta, GA | $43,424 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Charlie Norwood Va Fisher House | August, GA | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Army Mwrf | San Antonio, TX | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Secretary of the Army | Washington, DC | $34,239 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| USA Patriots Veteran Athletics | Alexandria, VA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Army G1 | Washington, DC | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Operation Once in a Lifetime | Dallas, TX | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Armed Services YMCA Hawaii | Pearl Harbor, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Veterans Empowerment Council Inc | N Bethesda, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Guard Association of the Unites States | Atlanta, GA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Valero Energy Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fort Sam Houston Resilient Center | Fort Sam Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| US Naval Sea Cadets Corps Radm Charles W Parks Battalion | Dublin, CA | $19,892 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Fort Drum Directorate of Family and Moral Welfare and Recreation | Fort Drum, NY | $19,634 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ft Eisenhower Fisher House | Ft Eisenhower, GA | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Army Cadet Command | Fort Knox, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| US Army Imcom G9 Family and Mwr | Fort Sam Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Americas Mighty Warriors | Surprise, AZ | $14,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Office of the Sma | Washington, DC | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbus Recruiting Battalion Rcmw-Co | Columbus, OH | $12,850 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| US Army Installation Management Command's G9 Family and Morale Welfare a | Houston, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Army Public Affairs Office | Fort Belvoir, VA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Military Order of the Purple Heart of the USA (dept of Florida) | Chuluota, FL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc | Williston, FL | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Board of the Rocks Inc | Forestville, MD | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fisher House Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joint Base San Antonio Ft Sam Houston | San Antonio, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Motor City Ngaus Inc | Lansing, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Once in a Lifetime | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Aberdeen Proving Ground Fmwr | Aberdeen Proving Groun, MD | $7,899 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Leavenworth | Fort Leavenworth, KS | $6,204 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| US Army Training and Doctrine Comand | Laurel, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| U S Naval Sea Cadet Corps | Arlington, VA | $5,644 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Army War College Foundation Incorporated | Carlisle, PA | $5,613 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| College Options Foundation Inc | Peachtree Cty, GA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Army Medical Department Museum Foundation Inc | San Antonio, TX | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Command and General Staff College Foundation | Fort Leavenworth, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Ranger Association Inc | Fort Benning, GA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
18 of 52 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Army Emergency Relief
TO ADDRESS FOOD INSECURITY THAT HAS AFFECTED SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES ACROSS THE ARMY - US Army
PROFFER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY TO PROVIDE FOR THE ATTENDANCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL TO AUSA SYMPOSIA - Army 10 Miler
SPONSORSHIP OF THE ARMY TEN-MILER - Fisher House Foundation
SUPPORT TO BUILD COMFORT HOMES WHERE MILITARY & VETERAN FAMILIES CAN STAY - Fisher House Foundation Inc
TO SUPPORT BUILDING COMFORT HOMES WHERE MILITARY & VETERAN FAMILIES CAN STAY - Eangus We Care for America
TO SUPPORT NATIONAL GUARD SEVICE MEMBERS IN NEED
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | $714,749 | $8,500 |
| 2021 | 17 | $1,485,527 | $12,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $2,070,707 | $12,850 |
| 2023 | 20 | $533,303 | $11,750 |
| 2024 | 18 | $1,366,182 | $16,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
36% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Association of the United States Army's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2425 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA, 22201.
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