Virginia · Nonprofit
BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC
BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,000 to it, the largest being THE PAULEY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- CultureWorks Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BRANCHES OF THE ARTS 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
BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
100% of BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- CultureWorks Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchVA · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 60 organizations near you
- Brooklyn Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bronx Council on the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blank Allan and Margot Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Anne Arundel County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dance Service New York City Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flushing Council on Culture and the Artsportfolio 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.
Government funding BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.
- Department of Defense$33k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC
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 BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC: 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 BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC?
- BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $165,000 to it, the largest being THE PAULEY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $165,000 in grants to BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BRANCHES OF THE ARTS INC?
- THE PAULEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRANCHES OF THE ARTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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