Virginia · Nonprofit
BU-GATA
BU-GATA (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,860 to it, the largest being EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION ($179,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $365k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $457k
- Net assets
- $171k
What Bu-Gata does
Mission
Educational & cultural activities for the arlington community and outreach to low-income renters of arlington county virginia
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
After school program and educational workshops for teenagers. Fifty workshops held that service over thirty-six teenagers
$41,906 spent22% of program spendingMeetings and educational workshops with arlington residents and arlington county low-income residents to discuss rehabilitation of apartment complexes and improve living conditions and better access to services. Estimated number of individual residents that benefit: 1,500 - 2,000.
$110,478 spent58% of program spendingEducate tenants and translate documents into spanish and english. Serviced approximayely 300 tenants with one-on-one and group meetings. Serviced residents through meetings with owners, code enforcement officals and housing staff.
$38,096 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,480.
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 2023 to 2024, from $123k to $174k (+41%).
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 63% · 2018 99% · 2019 86% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 57% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BU-GATA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $73k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 BU-GATA’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
BU-GATA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 BU-GATA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 69% · 2023 69% — 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
BU-GATA draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k 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.
Against its field
BU-GATA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BU-GATA
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BU-GATA: 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 BU-GATA?
- BU-GATA (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $456,860 to it, the largest being EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION ($179,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BU-GATA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $456,860 in grants to BU-GATA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BU-GATA?
- EUGENE & AGNES E MEYER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $179,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BU-GATA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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