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Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

$121M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$81,830,259
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Virginia Tech Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$121M25%
FY20244$97M75%
FY20231$40M0%
FY20221$36M0%
FY20211$33M0%
FY20201$34M0%
FY20191$31M0%
FY20181$31M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$446MReligion$140kHealth$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$445,908,4339n/a
Community United Methodist Church$140,0002n/a
Azcms Cares Foundation$80,0002n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$50,0001n/a
Fordham University$10,00010%

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About Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

How much does Virginia Tech Foundation Inc give?
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $121,219,707 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Virginia Tech Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Religion (0%), Health (0%).
Who are Virginia Tech Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University ($446M), Community United Methodist Church ($140k), Azcms Cares Foundation ($80k).
Does Virginia Tech Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Virginia Tech Foundation Inc based?
Virginia Tech Foundation 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 5 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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