Virginia · Nonprofit
CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC
CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,979 to it, the largest being COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES ($309,791). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $328k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $553k
- Net assets
- $256k
What Christiansburg Institute Inc does
Mission
To promote and preserve african american education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To assess the 4000 archival collection of photographs, documents, publications, historic objects, and oral histories and provide workshops for board members, staff and volunteers to learn to preserve historical materials
$76,284 spent29% of program spendingTo provide indoor historical exhibition center to the community and general public
$10,522 spent4% of program spendingTo provide african american education program to the general public through a volunteer service operation
$10,522 spent4% of program spendingTo restore the edgar a. Long building and the alexander homestead cabin
$165,722 spent63% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $263,050.
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 2022 to 2023, from $512k to $262k (−49%).
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 44% · 2018 43% · 2019 4% · 2020 37% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 15% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Chris Sanchez
Executive director
Board chair
Debbie Sherman-Lee
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CHRISTIANSBURG 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
CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 84% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $668k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$349k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$319k
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 CHRISTIANSBURG 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIANSBURG 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC?
- CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $552,979 to it, the largest being COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES ($309,791). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $552,979 in grants to CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC?
- COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES is the largest funder on record, with $309,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIANSBURG 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.
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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