Association of the United States Army
Arlington, VA · EIN 53-0193361. Reported 69 grants totalling $4,804,286 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 45 distinct organizations, with 42% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 42% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,500. 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.
2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $120,000 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 | $970,000 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | Rockville, MD | $581,285 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Army 10 Miler | Washington, DC | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alabama Center of Military History US Veterans Memorial Museum | Huntsville, AL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Some Gave All the Joey Graves Foundation Inc | Discovery Bay, CA | $43,740 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Army Scholarship Foundation Inc | Dallas, TX | $38,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Christmas House Inc | Augusta, GA | $36,924 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Armed Services YMCA Hawaii | Pearl Harbor, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 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 |
| Army G1 | Washington, DC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Operation Once in a Lifetime | Dallas, TX | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| USA Patriots Veteran Athletics | Alexandria, VA | $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 |
| Fort Drum Directorate of Family and Moral Welfare and Recreation | Fort Drum, NY | $12,134 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| National Guard Association of the Unites States | Atlanta, GA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 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 |
| Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy | West Point, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 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 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Leavenworth | Fort Leavenworth, KS | $6,204 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
13 of 45 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 - 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 - US Army Military District of Washington (mdw) Army Ten-Miler Fund
SPONSORSHIP OF THE ARMY TEN-MILER
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
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
46% 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.
Down to the city
Find more funders like Association of the United States Army
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $11,500 -- 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.
Related guides
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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 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.
EIN 53-0193361 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.