Virginia · Nonprofit
ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC
ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,239 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($182,165). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $458k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Assisting Families of Inmates Inc does
Mission
The organization serves families of the incarcerated with evidence-based programs providing meaningful visitation, family support, and children's services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Afoi's visitation services include our transportation programs, in cooperation with vadjj and vadoc, which include coordinated transportation and incidental services for visitation by familities and friends of juvenile residents and adult inmates confined in correctional institutions in virginia. Adoi's visitation services also include our video visitation program, in cooperation with vadoc, which provides a low-cost alternative (no travel, lodging, time-off-work, childcare, meal expenses, etc.) to face-to-face in-person visits for family and friends with an incarcerated loved one. Video visitation also allows for reduction in personnel and security risks necessary for facilities to accomplish visits including contraband and inmate movement, etc. Afoi currently provides video visitation opportunities to all of virginia's adult correctional centers either remotely from homes worldwide or from one of our visitor centers located throughout the commonwealth (alexandria, bristol, charlottesville, fredericksburg, mechanicsville, norfolk, richmond, and roanoke). Afoi also offers visitation assistance funds for families which van help subsidize the costs associated with prison visitng,…
$339,702 spent9% of program spendingAfoi's children's services include our milk & cookies (mac) children's program and its continued development and expansion. Mac provides school- based support group programming to children, grades k-5, who have an incarcerated parent, with the purpose of increasing self-competency, emotional regulation, resiliency, and other factors within program participants. As emotional dysregulation decreases, children are then better able to achieve socially, emotionally, physically, and academically. The mac program also provides support and assistance opportunities for the parents/caregivers of these children in order to reduce household needs/stressors and boost the home environment for all. Mac has continued to expand within rps elementary schools and adoi has continued our work on activity and curriculum updates, program development, and evaluation and program virtualization.
$285,782 spent7% of program spendingAfoi's family services include direct support for families impacted by the incarceration of a loved one. Afoi also partners with vadjj to offer our hearty support for justice-involved youth (youth either reentering our communities from incarceration or youth on probation and parole within our communities) and their families. Afoi also offers holiday assistance to impacted children and families; support through direct services like our family support group and seminar serires; and direct work in cooperation with vadoc to open and operate the family reunification program for incarcerated parents (mothers), and their children/families, as the parent nears the end of their sentence and reenters their home and community. Afoi currently offers the family reunification program at the virginia correctional center for women (vccw) in goochland, virginia.
$3,276,064 spent84% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,901,548.
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 2021 to 2022, from $941k to $1.5M (+61%).
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: 2017 77% · 2018 64% · 2019 64% · 2020 59% · 2021 27% · 2022 19% · 2023 55% · 2024 57% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Anne Nevel
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $39k → $130k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC’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
ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 41% · 2022 43% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
63% of ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC?
- ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,239 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($182,165). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $458,239 in grants to ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $182,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTING FAMILIES OF INMATES INC 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.
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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 11 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