Virginia · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE (Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,603,611 to it, the largest being OBICI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($1,624,130). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Center for Nonprofit Excellence does
Mission
Tcne is a champion, learning partner, and advisor for virginia nonprofits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Partnerships & consulting:the center participates in various strategic partnerships and consulting engagements with foundations aimed at strategically delivering its capacity-building programs and services in select regions across virginia. These partnerships and engagements are fully-funded by the inviting respective partner and provide support for the center's core programs and services. The center directly supported nonprofits in partnership locations through regionally-responsive workshops, leadership development programs, technical assistance, resource sharing, and capacity-building consulting programs.
$942,335 spent$264,524 earned by the program73% of program spendingEducation & resources:the center conducts various workshops, advanced training, and longer-term academy programs. The center also provides a wide array of publications, books, and virtual resources that strengthen nonprofits and their board, executive, and staff leadership. Based on extensive research, the center has developed 7 actionable principles for a strong social sector, a framework to enable the social sector to be more effective, make better use of resources, and increase community impact. The center also delivers various programs centered on redressing inequities within the nonprofit sector in support of equitable, thriving, and just communities throughout virginia.
$143,233 spent$5,000 earned by the program11% of program spendingLegislative education & communications:the center engages in collection and reporting of nonprofit sector data to increase understanding of the sector and its needs. This work includes the facilitation, convening, and communications activities to enhance the public understanding of the commonwealth's nonprofits. The center also provides legislative education sessions for nonprofits and legislators, and convenes local, state, and national stakeholders in support of a thriving and vibrant social sector.
$147,870 spentof which $4,400 as grants11% of program spendingMembership services:the center offers nonprofit organizations membership benefits that include the following: discounted rates for the center's workshops, advanced trainings, academies, and other programs. Exclusive access to the center's leadership circles, a leadership development program of facilitated small groups made up of nonprofit professionals. These circles provide a confidential setting in which peers can discuss and solve real-time problems with real-world experience, and support each other's learning and growth. Free access to our nonprofit help desk, providing customized technical assistance and resource requests.
$58,814 spent$89,602 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,292,252.
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 $1.4M to $2.0M (+46%).
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: 2019 12% · 2020 10% · 2021 2% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Mariane Asad Doyle
Executive director
Board chair
Nathan Walton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $191k → $1.3M.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 58% · 2019 56% · 2020 77% · 2021 39% · 2022 65% · 2023 54% — broadly stable.
“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
56% of CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
74% of CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $632k 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
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
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 CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: 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 CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE?
- CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE (Virginia) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,603,611 to it, the largest being OBICI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ($1,624,130). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,603,611 in grants to CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE?
- OBICI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,624,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE 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 34 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