Virginia · Nonprofit
Boredom Busters
Boredom Busters (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,268 to it, the largest being DUBNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Boredom Busters's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Cora and John H Davis Foundation Incshared funders
- Chartway Promise Foundationportfolio match
- The Nora Roberts Family Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
96% of Boredom Busters’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $67k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Boredom Busters’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
Boredom Busters leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 61% · 2023 89% — 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
Boredom Busters draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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.
- Cora and John H Davis Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Chartway Promise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nora Roberts Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Douglas G Halliday Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William a Cooke Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brad Ginsberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pay It Backward Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of Towson-Timonium Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appletree Hill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lids Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Em Burger Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Boredom Busters
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Boredom Busters: 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 Boredom Busters?
- Boredom Busters (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,268 to it, the largest being DUBNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Boredom Busters have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $363,268 in grants to Boredom Busters, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Boredom Busters?
- DUBNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Boredom Busters 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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