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ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL

ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,576,306 to it, the largest being RED GATES FOUNDATION ($10,387,500). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16M
Funders on record
92
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
$44M
67/92 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Anna Julia Cooper School does

Mission

The mission of Anna Julia Cooper School is to love, educate, and uplift its students and graduates so that they may realize their god-given gifts. We provide full-tuition scholarships to k-8th grade students who reside primarily in richmond's east end.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The school serves students in k-8th grades. Our academic program focuses heavily on reading, writing and math. Other subjects include science, geography and history. Our curriculum also includes physical education, social/emotional learning, chapel, art, music, and other enrichment activities.

    $3,696,594 spent
    92% of program spending
  2. Graduate support the school assisted with tuition and fees for about 56 students and provided support services for an additional 274 students. Support services included college assistance, high school support, materials and supplies, summer jobs, testing and transportation.

    $270,754 spentof which $148,988 as grants
    7% of program spending
  3. The Anna Julia Cooper School scholarship foundation was established in 2013 to provide scholarships for students of limited resources, primarily from richmond's east end, to attend Anna Julia Cooper School and other independent schools in virginia. Individuals and businesses who contribute to the scholarship fund and pay taxes in the commonwealth of virginia are eligible to receive a 65% state tax credit as part of the education improvement scholarship tax credit program.

    $62,500 spentof which $62,500 as grants
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,029,848.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 79 ($2.2M) Expenses 115 ($1.9M) Net assets 113 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 328 ($9.1M) Expenses 128 ($2.1M) Net assets 345 ($10M)2020 Revenue 151 ($4.2M) Expenses 146 ($2.4M) Net assets 403 ($12M)2021 Revenue 258 ($7.1M) Expenses 138 ($2.3M) Net assets 549 ($16M)2022 Revenue 187 ($5.2M) Expenses 190 ($3.2M) Net assets 614 ($18M)2023 Revenue 161 ($4.5M) Expenses 248 ($4.1M) Net assets 627 ($19M)2024 Revenue 708 ($20M) Expenses 246 ($4.1M) Net assets 1121 ($34M)2025 Revenue 569 ($16M) Expenses 293 ($4.9M) Net assets 1474 ($44M)
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Revenue (569)Expenses (293)Net assets (1474)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $34M (+78%).

$3.0M
$3.6M
$10M
$12M
$19M
$19M
$19M
$34M
$45M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$260k
’18
$6.9M
’19
$1.7M
’20
$4.8M
’21
$2.0M
’22
$328k
’23
$15M
’24
$11M
’25
19
months of
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.

Board chair

Jill Hunter

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161717171819171919
Joined·+5+0+4+2+3+1+5+2
No longer listed·40412332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $471k → $2.3M.

16 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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

ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 43% · 2019 26% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 25% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

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MA
PA
CA
CO
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VA
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SC
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FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin69% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Anna Julia Cooper Re Holding Company Inc · exempt
  • Ajc Hope Grows Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL?
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,576,306 to it, the largest being RED GATES FOUNDATION ($10,387,500). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $26,576,306 in grants to ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL?
RED GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,387,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL 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 92 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing