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Virginia Education Association

The mission of the VIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is to unite our members and local communities across the commonwealth in fulfilling the promise of a high quality public education that successfully prepares every single student to realize his or her full potential.

$262k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$226kEducation$104kHuman Services$103kPhilanthropy$35kEmployment$26kMembership Benefit$22kCrime & Legal$17k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $175,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $262,297 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,547 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$15,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION$150,000
VIRGINIA COALITION FOR PROGRESSIVE VALUES$15,750
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICA VOTES EDUCATION: $150k → 14%LOUDOUN UNISERV: $26k → 4%MOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV: $26k → 6%FAIRFAX UNISERV: $26k → 6%CHESTERFIELD UNISERV: $9k → 7%BLUE RIDGE UNISERV: $9k → 8%ELIZABETH RIVER UNISERV: $9k → 9%NOVA - ALEXANDRIA UNISERV: $9k → 9%PRINCE WILLIAM UNISERV: $26k → 9%RICHMOND UNISERV: $9k → 9%CHESAPEAKE BAY UNISERV: $9k → 10%VALLEY UNISERV: $18k → 11%SOUTHWEST UNISERV: $9k → 11%SOUTHSIDE UNISERV: $9k → 11%NEW RIVER UNISERV: $9k → 14%PEIDMONT UNISERV: $9k → 14%COLONIAL UNISERV: $9k → 17%CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN UNISERV: $9k → 18%CENTRAL VIRGINIA UNISERV: $9k → 20%TIDEWATER UNISERV: $9k → 20%COMMONWEALTH UNISERV: $9k → 20%WE THE PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION: $15k → 22%AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE: $10k → 14%LOUDOUN COUNTY: $5k → 4%MOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV: $9k → 6%NOVA - ARLINGTON UNISERV: $17k → 6%ROSA LEE GUARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25k → 9%EDUSERVE UNISERV: $9k → 11%DOMINION UNISERV: $9k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federal Education Association Europe

Dissemination of information to members of association concerning education and employment - respresentation of dod teachers in labor disputes.

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2
Connecticut Education Association

The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.

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3
Virginia Education Association

The mission of the virginia education association is to unite our members and local communities across the commonwealth in fulfilling the promise of a high quality public education that successfully prepares every single student to realize…

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4
Alexandria Education Association

To unify and strengthen the teaching profession and to secure maintain and advance the working conditions necessary to support teaching as a profession. As well as to enable members to speak with a common voice on matters pertaining to the…

Employment
5
Volusia United Educators Inc

Professional union representing teachers, guidance counselors, media specialists, social workers, speech clinicians, psychologists, paraprofessionals and office specialists in volusia county public schools. vue works to ensure that…

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6
Arlington Education Association Arlington School District No 16

The Arlington Education Association represents the teachers of the Arlington School District.

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7
Virginia Science Education Leadership Association

Advocate for excellence in science curriculum, instruction, and learning for all.

Education
8
Dayton Education Assn

Member representation

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9
Florida Education Association Putnam Federation of Teachers/United

Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.

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10
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers Lcta Pta

Parent teacher association

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11
American Federation of Teachers

Union members teachers association

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12
Wicomico County Education Association

Provide negotiating services & representation for 1200 teachers employed by the wicomico county board of education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colonial Uniserv Unit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr16%80%35–55yr14%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%41%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr16%55%35–55yr14%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
10%
3/29
the rest of the field
13%
4,539/35,256

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/22
Grantees still filing
7/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV INC — $34,653 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV INCLoudoun Education Association Inc — $31,025 · OtherLoudoun Education Association IncFAIRFAX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $25,725 · OtherFAIRFAX EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONPRINCE WILLIAM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $25,725 · OtherPRINCE WILLIAM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INCROSA LEE GUARD SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $25,060 · OtherROSA LEE GUARD SCHOLARSHIP FUNDDemocratic Party of Virginia — $20,000 · OtherDemocratic Party of VirginiaARLINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $17,150 · OtherVirginia Coalition for Progressive Values — $15,750 · OtherWE THE PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION — $15,000 · Other+17 more — $145,775 · Other+17 moreAmerica Votes Education Fund — $150,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes Education FundVALLEY UNISERV UNIT — $18,150 · EducationAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$355,863Civil Rights$150,000Education$18,150Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV INC — $34,653 over 2y, 26% of budgetLoudoun Education Association Inc — $31,025 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFAIRFAX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $25,725 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPRINCE WILLIAM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $25,725 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetARLINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $17,150 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetVirginia Coalition for Progressive Values — $15,750 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetWE THE PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION — $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWATER UNISERV CLUSTER INC VEA — $8,575 over 1y, 19% of budgetVirginia Education Association — $8,575 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetRICHMOND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND INC — $8,575 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPIEDMONT UNISERV UNIT — $8,575 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOLONIAL UNISERV UNIT INC — $8,575 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDominion Uniserv Unit Inc — $8,575 over 1y, 16% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

National Education As…
National Education Association of the United StatesDC13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Education Association of the United States

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Virginia Education Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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