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Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc

To collect, preserve, interpret, inform and celebrate Virginia's African American history, culture and community and to educate the public about African American contributions in all areas of endeavor.

$246k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$78,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$266k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$246k75%
FY20235$232k80%
FY20223$90kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$367kEducation$160kReligion$35kCommunity Improvement$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Norfolk State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiary$150,00021%
New Journal and Guide$80,0002n/a
Truth Be Told$78,0001n/a
Heard Productions - Truth Be Told Podcast$76,0001n/a
Young Audiences of Virginia Inc$45,00034%
Young Peoples Guild Foundation$30,000141%
Hampton Roads African American Heritage Trail Inc$30,000120%
Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist$25,0001n/a
ViBe Creative District$18,0001n/a
Men of Faith$10,000119%
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All grantees of Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Norfolk State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiary$150,00021%
New Journal and Guide$80,0002n/a
Truth Be Told$78,0001n/a
Heard Productions - Truth Be Told Podcast$76,0001n/a
Young Audiences of Virginia Inc$45,00034%
Young Peoples Guild Foundation$30,000141%
Hampton Roads African American Heritage Trail Inc$30,000120%
Mount Lebanon Missionary Baptist$25,0001n/a
ViBe Creative District$18,0001n/a
Men of Faith$10,000119%
Poetry Jackson LLC$10,0001n/a
Amun Ra Inc$10,0001n/a
ViBe District Virginia Beach$6,00011%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

United Way of South Hampton RoadsVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc

How much does Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc give?
Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc reported 8 grants totaling $246,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (65%), Education (28%), Religion (6%).
Who are Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Norfolk State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiary ($150k), New Journal and Guide ($80k), Truth Be Told ($78k).
Does Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of South Hampton Roads.
Where is Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc based?
Virginia African American Cultural Center Inc is based in VA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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