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Virginia Civic Engagement Table

The Virginia Civic Engagement Table strengthens and connects Virginias progressive nonprofit organizations and activists and acts as a hub for the larger progressive community.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$354kCivil Rights$308kEnvironment$126kPhilanthropy$51kHealth$20kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $90,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $97,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$633k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VA Coalition for Immigrant Rights$30,000
Fair Elections Center$10,000
VA League of Conservation Voters$10,000
UpVote Virginia$10,000
VA League for Planned Parenthood$10,000
African Communities Together$10,000
Hamkae Center$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%African Communities Together: $10k → 17%VA Coalition for Immigrant Rights: $30k → 9%African Communities Together: $5k → 17%Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Ri: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$619k · 10 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$619k
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+121%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NK
    NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +208%
  • VL
    VIRGINIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $91k · revenue +71%
  • CASA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $83k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +168%
  • EF
    Emgage Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +238%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +121%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.

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2
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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3
Virginia Civic Engagement Table
Civil Rights
4
Virginia Afl-Cio

The Virginia AFL-CIO monitors all legislation affecting the working people of Virginia. To keep the state's labor standards on a progressive track for all working people, we work to win the fight against passage of laws that would have a…

Employment
5
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
6
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
7
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
8
Verified Voting Foundation

Strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in all elections.

—
9
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
10
Virginia Energy Efficiency Council

Advance energy efficiency

Environment
11
New Virginia Majority

New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
12
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith in Public Life Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is Edu-Futuro. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $91,000 · OtherVIRGINIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERSCASA INC: $83,000 · OtherCASA INCLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION: $60,000 · OtherPROGRESS NOW EDUCATIONVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORP…+3 more: $24,000 · Other+3 moreNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $135,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND E…PROGRESS NOW INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS NOW INCFair Elections Center: $65,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections CenterSPREAD THE VOTE INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $10,000 · Civil RightsVirginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $40,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSIN BARRERAS WITHOUT BARRIERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTIDES FOUNDATION: $51,100 · PhilanthropyEmgage Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Public BenefitONEVIRGINIA2021 FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $10,000 · EnvironmentVirginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $10,000 · Environment
Other$353,000Civil Rights$300,000Human Services$60,000Philanthropy$51,100Public Benefit$50,000Community Improvement$35,000Environment$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $135,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $91,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCASA INC: $83,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROGRESS NOW INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFair Elections Center: $65,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $51,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $40,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021 FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVirginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE ACTION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDU-FUTURO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Virginia Coalition Fo…NEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationCharlottesville Area …Greater Washington Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Virginia Coalition For Immigrant RightsVA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Virginia Civic Engagement Table funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Civic Engagement Table. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 23 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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