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CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,872,500 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,706,988). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,902 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio match
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio match
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.
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 61% · 2018 42% · 2019 30% · 2020 20% · 2021 18% · 2022 23% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $310k → $527k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS’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
CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 72% · 2021 50% · 2022 71% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 63% 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
CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jumpstart Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Incutech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association of Counties Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Community Capital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pa Irc Network Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington State Microenterprise Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evergreen Business Capital Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Chamber of Commerce 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.
Government funding CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.5M on record — $14.5M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Defense$12.8M
- Department of Commerce$1.6M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$75k
- OTHER SERVICES$2k
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 CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS: 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 CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS?
- CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,872,500 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,706,988). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,872,500 in grants to CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,706,988 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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