How much does Virginia Historical Society give?

Virginia Historical Society reported 12 grants totaling $551,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does Virginia Historical Society fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Education (8%), Civil Rights (5%).

Who are Virginia Historical Society's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Let Freedom Ring Foundation ($75k), Virginia Nottoway Indian Circle and Square Foundation Incorporated ($75k), Virginia Tribal Education Consortium Inc ($75k).

Does Virginia Historical Society fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Historical Society?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.

Where is Virginia Historical Society based?

Virginia Historical Society is based in VA.

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Virginia · Public charity

Virginia Historical Society

Connecting people to america's past through the unparalleled story of virginia. By collecting, preserving and interpreting the commonwealth's history, we link past with present and inspire future generations.

$552k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 100%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 13; FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $177M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Virginia Historical Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$552k	100%
FY2024	13	$376k	100%
FY2023	11	$401k	100%
FY2022	11	$398k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$135kCivil Rights$95kRecreation & Sports$88kReligion$35kHealth$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Let Freedom Ring Foundation	$75,000	1	41%
Virginia Nottoway Indian Circle and Square Foundation Incorporated	$75,000	1	n/a
Virginia Tribal Education Consortium Inc	$75,000	1	6%
The Jxn Project	$75,000	1	2%
Rappahannock Tribe Foundation	$65,000	1	32%
Chickahominy Indian Tribe Inc	$65,000	1	87%
Fredericksburg Area Museum & Cultural Center	$60,000	1	n/a
Black History Museum & Clt Ctr	$60,000	1	4%
The Greater Reedville Association	$57,582	1	12%
Virginia Association of Museums	$50,000	1	16%

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All grantees of Virginia Historical Society by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Let Freedom Ring Foundation	$75,000	1	41%
Virginia Nottoway Indian Circle and Square Foundation Incorporated	$75,000	1	n/a
Virginia Tribal Education Consortium Inc	$75,000	1	6%
The Jxn Project	$75,000	1	2%
Rappahannock Tribe Foundation	$65,000	1	32%
Chickahominy Indian Tribe Inc	$65,000	1	87%
Fredericksburg Area Museum & Cultural Center	$60,000	1	n/a
Black History Museum & Clt Ctr	$60,000	1	4%
The Greater Reedville Association	$57,582	1	12%
Virginia Association of Museums	$50,000	1	16%
Pamunkey Indian Tribe	$50,000	1	n/a
Calfee Community Center and Cultural Center Inc	$50,000	1	11%
Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County	$50,000	1	8%
The Corporation for Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest	$50,000	1	1%
Sharon Indian School Foundation Inc	$44,824	1	n/a
Lincoln Preservation Foundation	$40,000	1	n/a
National D-Day Memorial Foundation	$38,360	1	1%
Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia Inc	$35,000	1	8%
Richmond Hill Incorporated	$35,000	1	3%
Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation	$35,000	1	1%
Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc	$31,500	1	n/a
City of Richmond Public Library Foundation	$30,000	1	16%
Radford Heritage Foundation	$30,000	1	31%
Association for the Preservation of Va Antiquities	$30,000	1	0%
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Art Ctr	$25,000	1	5%
Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc	$25,000	1	4%
Manassas Museum Associates	$25,000	1	n/a
Fluvanna County Historical Society	$25,000	1	16%
Historic Staunton Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Historical Society of Western Virginia	$25,000	1	9%
The Board of Regents of Gunston Hall Incorporated	$20,400	1	2%
Norfolk Historical Society	$20,000	1	n/a
Historic Richmond Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Science Museum of Virginia Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Here2hear LLC	$16,000	1	n/a
Toano Historical Society Inc	$15,000	1	43%
Belle Grove Inc	$14,000	1	0%
Woodland Restoration Foundation	$13,040	1	15%
Fort Harrison Inc	$12,000	1	32%
Louisa County Historical Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Prince William Historic Preservation Foundation	$10,000	1	50%
Appomattox Regional Governors School Boosters	$10,000	1	n/a
Clarke County Historical Association	$7,500	1	2%
Orange County Historical Society Inc	$6,000	1	n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.

Virginia Historical Society supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The Community Foundation IncVA29.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Chrisman Family Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · The Roller-Bottimore Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Tesco Foundation · United South and Eastern Tribesinc · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation

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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About Virginia Historical Society

How much does Virginia Historical Society give?: Virginia Historical Society reported 12 grants totaling $551,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Virginia Historical Society fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Education (8%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are Virginia Historical Society's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Let Freedom Ring Foundation ($75k), Virginia Nottoway Indian Circle and Square Foundation Incorporated ($75k), Virginia Tribal Education Consortium Inc ($75k).
Does Virginia Historical Society fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Historical Society?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
Where is Virginia Historical Society based?: Virginia Historical Society is based in VA.