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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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$226kEducation$104kHuman Services$103kPhilanthropy$35kEmployment$26kMembership Benefit$22kCrime & Legal$17k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $175,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $262,297 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,547 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.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
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 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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colonial Uniserv Unit Inc; 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.
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 29 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV INC: $34,653 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW UNISERV INCLoudoun Education Association Inc: $31,025 · OtherLoudoun Education Association IncPRINCE WILLIAM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $25,725 · OtherPRINCE WILLIAM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INCFAIRFAX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25,725 · OtherFAIRFAX EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONROSA 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPRINCE WILLIAM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $25,725 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFAIRFAX EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25,725 over 1y, 2.8% 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 budgetCOLONIAL UNISERV UNIT INC: $8,575 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetVirginia Education Association: $8,575 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPIEDMONT UNISERV UNIT: $8,575 over 1y, 13% of budgetRICHMOND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF RICHMOND INC: $8,575 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDominion Uniserv Unit Inc: $8,575 over 1y, 16% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Education As…
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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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 29 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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