Virginia · Nonprofit
CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW
CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,623,796 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($522,150). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $563k
What Charlottesville Tomorrow does
Mission
Charlottesville Tomorrow delivers in-depth, non-partisan reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making in central virginia. We seek to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cover local news in charlottesville and albemarle county: Charlottesville Tomorrow's staff provided in-depth reporting by means of the Charlottesville Tomorrow website and weekly newsletters. The organization's staff coordinated events and engaged readers through emails, newsletters, and social media.
$684,370 spent100% of program spendingMaintain news website and e-mail mailing list: Charlottesville Tomorrow's website and associated social media tools are used along with an email marketing list to aid in the broad dissemination of Charlottesville Tomorrow's news and research information to the public. This supports the organization's goal to deliver in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making. We seek to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community.
$15,000 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $684,370.
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 $409k to $784k (+91%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Angilee Shah
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Aleen Carey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $102k → $802k.
8 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW has grown faster than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW
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
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,623,796 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($522,150). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $3,623,796 in grants to CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $522,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW 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 42 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