FOUNDING FORWARD

EIN 26-1894379 VALLEY FORGE, PA

Revenue 2024: $9,800,191
Expenses 2024: $8,066,879

Program services were 77.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: O11
Classification: 1000
Street: 1601 VALLEY FORGE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FOUNDING FORWARD INFORMS AND ENGAGES CITIZENS THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES GROUNDED IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THESE EXPERIENCES ENABLE STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND CITIZENS TO UNDERSTAND, APPRECIATE, AND PRACTICE THE PRINCIPLES, RIGHTS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

Activities or mission (Part I)

INFORMS AND ENGAGES CITIZENS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES GROUNDED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH - FOUNDING FORWARD PRESENTS A NUMBER OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING GOOD CITIZEN DAY, TOURS OF THE HISTORIC LEAGUE HOUSE, TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES PRESENTATIONS, EXHIBITS, SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL HISTORY DAY PHILADELPHIA, SPEAKER PROGRAMS, AND CIVICS EDUCATION. CIVICS EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED TO PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AND FOCUS ON CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, AMERICAN HISTORY, AND THE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS. ADDITIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS TARGETING TEACHERS PROVIDE HISTORY AND CIVIC CONTENT BY EXPOSING TEACHERS TO EXTRAORDINARY SCHOLARS AND THINKERS IN PROGRAMS ON THE CONSTITUTION, AMERICAN HISTORY, CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, AND AMERICAN VALUES.

Expenses $5,112,350 · Revenue $538,275
SCHOLARSHIPS - FOUNDING FORWARD ADMINISTERS TWO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS. THE UNION LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS TO DESERVING YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA REGION WHO PREVIOUSLY WERE AWARDED THE GOOD CITIZENSHIP AWARD. THE ABELE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION TO CHILDREN/DEPENDENTS OF UNION LEAGUE EMPLOYEES. SCHOLARSHIPS RANGE FROM $750 TO $15,000 PER ANNUM.

Expenses $572,198 · Grants $365,021 · Revenue $119,941
PRESERVATION AND COLLECTIONS - FOUNDING FORWARD HELPS PRESERVE THE HISTORIC PROPERTIES OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA - THE LEAGUE HOUSE IN CENTER CITY AND GUARD HOUSE IN GLADWYNE. IT IS ALSO THE STEWARD OF AN EXTENSIVE CIVIL WAR COLLECTION THAT INCLUDES THE ARCHIVES OF THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CIVIL WAR MUSEUM OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA. THE COLLECTION IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR RESEARCH. IT HAS BEEN USED FOR DOZENS OF SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

Expenses $509,521 · Revenue $69,270
HONORING ACTS OF CIVIC VIRTUE - THROUGH ITS NATIONAL AWARDS PROGRAM, FOUNDING FORWARD RECOGNIZES INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS AS EXAMPLES OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY. THIS PROGRAM RECOGNIZES ADULTS AND STUDENTS FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE, PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS, STUDENT ESSAYS, SPECIAL EVENTS, AND OUTSTANDING WORK IN THE CLASSROOM.

Expenses $39,799

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

JIM DUNIGAN

CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
MICHAEL PIOTROWICZ

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
JORDAN CLEMENTS

VICE CHAIR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
BOB CIARUFFOLI

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
STEVE TARGET

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
WILL ABELE

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DIANE ALLEN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
BILL BENAC

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
MARTY BODELL

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
SALLY BRINTON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JIM CARLL

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
BOB CAVALIER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JEFF DENTON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JOHN DINOME

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
GARY DORSHIMER

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
MONICA DUVALL- DILELLA

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DAN FITZPATRICK

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
FRANK GIORDANO

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
SHANNA GOWEN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
SUSAN HAINDL

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DAVID HARDY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
GREGG MELINSON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
MARK NASO

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JON NEHLSEN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
DON POWERS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$9,800,191

Expenses

$8,066,879

Contributions

$6,937,418

Grants paid

$365,021
2023

Revenue

$7,271,584

Expenses

$6,012,577

Contributions

$5,868,458

Grants paid

$396,321
2022

Revenue

$5,889,912

Expenses

$3,755,905

Contributions

$5,702,685

Grants paid

$280,665

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$9,800,191	$8,066,879	$6,937,418	$365,021
2023	$7,271,584	$6,012,577	$5,868,458	$396,321
2022	$5,889,912	$3,755,905	$5,702,685	$280,665

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$6,453,189

Expenses

$2,744,292

Assets (EOY)

$19,833,544
2020 · 990

Revenue

$3,492,460

Expenses

$2,298,256

Assets (EOY)

$19,017,590

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$6,453,189	$2,744,292	$19,833,544
2020	990	$3,492,460	$2,298,256	$19,017,590

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$148,800

2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$141,300

2022 HUMAN SERVICES
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$124,251

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$76,600

2024 EDUCATION
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$71,850

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$67,800

2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

$59,100

2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$58,133

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

$54,300

2023 EDUCATION
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

$50,700

2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA

501(C)(7) · SOCIAL CLUB · PA

Declared as related by

FREEDOMS FOUNDATION AT VALLEY FORGE

On its 2024 return
THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA

On its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.