The Army Distaff Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 530246852
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2025410400
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Supportive Housing for Older Adults
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,237,835
- Expenses
- $26,940,300
- Assets
- $44,524,503
- Liabilities
- $57,349,932
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOIS CALLAHAN (BOARD MEMBER/RA PRESIDENT)
- HUNTER MOORE (CEO (AS OF JAN 2026))
- TIMOTHY MCHALE (CEO (UNTIL JAN 2026))
Highest reported compensation
- TIMOTHY MCHALE (CEO (UNTIL JAN 2026)): $346,962 total reported compensation
- GLADSTONE JAMES (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $215,181 total reported compensation
- JAMES MICHELS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $204,418 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation operates a continuing care retirement community. The foundation provides three levels of housing facilities and services specifically designed to meet the physical, social, and psychological needs of elderly retired career military officers and their close relatives. The foundation provides independent living for those who are capable of caring for themselves, assisted living for those who are not fully capable of providing for themselves, and health services for those requiring immediate and continuing care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nestled in one of Washington, d.c.'s most impressive neighborhoods and surrounded by the natural beauty of rock creek park, knollwood offers a welcoming and vibrant senior living experience. Our community features 160 independent living residences designed to enrich the lives of retired military officers, their spouses, and close family members. With easy access to nearby restaurants, cultural attractions, and outdoor activities, knollwood provides the perfect balance of comfort, connection, and active living.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 4.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.29; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $347K · 22 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.8M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.