Military Officers Association of America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530172821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7035492311
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,955,963
- Expenses
- $26,810,281
- Assets
- $171,407,957
- Liabilities
- $54,906,754
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
46 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LT GEN BRIAN KELLY (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LT GEN BRIAN KELLY (PRESIDENT & CEO): $694,915 total reported compensation
- COL JAMES O'BRIEN (EVP & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $389,746 total reported compensation
- REGINA D CHAVIS (EVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $348,093 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education and service. Provide first-class service to our members. We are the leading voice on compensation & benefit matters for all members of the uniformed services (referred to as the military community). We provide education and advice to our members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Totalforce+ conference: totalforce+ is a national conference convened by the military officers association of america (moaa) focused on strengthening the u.s. Total force by advancing solutions across talent management, leadership development, human performance, quality of life, and the veteran and retiree experience. The conference brings together senior military leaders, government officials, industry executives, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and military-connected families to address the people side of national defense and the challenges impacting readiness, recruitment, retention, transition, and long-term force sustainment. Designed as a cross-sector platform for collaboration, professional development, innovation, and strategic dialogue, totalforce+ features keynote presentations, panel discussions, solution-focused sessions, networking opportunities, and an interactive exhibit experience highlighting programs, technologies, and initiatives supporting the military and veteran community. The inaugural totalforce+ conference was held october 2829, 2025, at national harbor, Maryland, and welcomed more than 2,700 attendees, over 100 speakers, and more than 100 sponsors and exhibitors representing the military, government, nonprofit, academic, and private sectors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.39; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 35 of 35 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $695K · 46 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.1M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.