Virginia · Nonprofit
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,679,453 to it, the largest being THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION ($5,515,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $89M
What Access College Foundation does
Mission
Advisory services for postsecondary educational planning and implementation of the application and financial aid processes, and career assistance and opportunities for students completing their certification degree or programs. These services were provided both in person and virtually/remotely
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
High school program and college success program: the foundation provided postsecondary education planning to more than 5,095 high school juniors, seniors and college students during 2024 and 4,391 in 2023. Of those students served in 2024, 3,718 families (73%), were verified to be low-income and in 2023, 3,199 (73%) were verified to be low-income. Postsecondary education planning program: these program includes school-based and virtual advisory services for college and postsecondary training preparation and success, college application/ testing fee payments, guidance through the admissions process, college tours to prospective campuses, and the leveraging of financial aid, scholarships, and grants needed to attend college or other postsecondary training. Each high school junior and senior completes an "access services application" at the beginning of the school year for our use in determining their eligibility for services to receive fee waivers and fee payments made by access on their behalf. This application also defines their family's level of poverty, based on federal guidelines. When financial aid forms (fafsas) are filed for the seniors and our college students, the family…
$4,764,444 spentof which $1,085,320 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,764,444.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $54M to $69M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Bonnie B Sutton
President & CEO
Board chair
T Richard Litton Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $3.5M → $1.4M.
14 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hampton Roads Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 27% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
51% of ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $691k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,679,453 to it, the largest being THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION ($5,515,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $14,679,453 in grants to ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing