Virginia · Nonprofit
CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC
CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,559 to it, the largest being CHIAROSCURO FOUNDATION ($359,559). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $257k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $436k
- Net assets
- $0
What Chiaroscuro Institute Inc does
Mission
The organization's goal is to educate the public on the value and importance of human life and religious freedom. The institute pursues these interests through occasional support of academic scholarship and programming.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Women speak for themselves:women speak for themselves is a grassroots organization with more than 75,000 women from all 50 states and various political and religious backgrounds. Our list is made up of diverse and intelligent women - with thousands of doctors, lawyers, teachers, businesswomen, homeschooling mothers, and longtime community advocates. Our partnership with these women, which began in 2012, has produced hundreds of letters to the editor, town hall meetings, letters and meetings with congressional representatives, social media postings, and the occasional protest, all in support of women and religious freedom.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $77k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 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 → 2018: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $276k → $160k.
From the IRS filings of CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC’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
CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC draws 100% 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. 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 CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC
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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chiaroscuro Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC?
- CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,559 to it, the largest being CHIAROSCURO FOUNDATION ($359,559). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $435,559 in grants to CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC?
- CHIAROSCURO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $359,559 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC 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.
Play a game about who funds Chiaroscuro Institute →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 2 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