Virginia · Nonprofit
American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia
American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,200 to it, the largest being JOHN E AND MARY E KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC C/O STERLING FDN MGMT ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Pauley Family Foundationlocal
- Virginia Law Foundationportfolio match
- For West Virginia's Future Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia raised.
From the IRS filings of American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 91% · 2020 85% · 2021 96% · 2022 79% · 2023 78% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 211 organizations that share them.
- The Pauley Family FoundationlocalVA · funds 60 organizations near you
- Virginia Law Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For West Virginia's Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Commonwealth Institute forportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Just Trust for Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Civic Engagement Tableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter Payne Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arenstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Jefferson Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ab Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- ACLU Foundation of Virginia · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia?
- American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,200 to it, the largest being JOHN E AND MARY E KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC C/O STERLING FDN MGMT ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $115,200 in grants to American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia?
- JOHN E AND MARY E KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC C/O STERLING FDN MGMT is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing