Virginia · Nonprofit
Browne Academy
Browne Academy (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,677 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $365k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Browne Academy does
Mission
The Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school preparing girls and boys in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for competitive secondary schools. The Academy is a diverse independent day school committed to developing the whole child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
An unwavering commitment to academic excellence forms the cornerstone of the Academys educational philosophy. The School achieves this commitment by fostering a passion for lifelong learning and by channeling this passion into a rigorous educational program. A comprehensive and challenging curriculum provides the essential foundation for each students (221 students) future academic success, physical growth and emotional development. This curriculum is designed to promote student excellence within and across each of the following disciplines: English (language arts and reading), mathematics, science, world languages, social studies and history, fine arts, technology, and physical education. The Academy offers a wide variety of extracurricular activities ranging from sports (soccer, basketball, and softball) to the fine arts (drama, art, and music lessons). Each trimester the Academy offers new extracurricular opportunities through the extended day program which offers services from 7:00 to 8:00 AM and 3:15 to 6:00 PM.
$7,273,384 spentof which $313,028 as grants$6,558,536 earned by the program94% of program spendingThe Academy also offers a summer camp for eight weeks throughout the summer that operates on the entire 11 acre campus (approximately 570 students). Camp attendees are offered various educational activities that are dedicated to providing a memorable experience for every camper in a safe, fun-filled and caring environment that fosters friendship and mutual respect for one another. Camps are also offered over the winter holiday break and spring break.
$442,128 spent$1,230,165 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,715,512.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $9.6M to $11M (+12%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 10% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Dawn Biggins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $46k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Browne Academy’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
Browne Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Browne Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 59% · 2020 40% · 2021 77% · 2022 79% · 2023 55% — 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
84% of Browne Academy's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k 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.
Organizations like Browne Academy
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Browne Academy: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Browne Academy?
- Browne Academy (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,677 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($185,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Browne Academy have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $364,677 in grants to Browne Academy, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Browne Academy?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Browne Academy 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing