Virginia · Nonprofit
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,597,814 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($6,965,978). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Close Up Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Close Up Foundation is to empower young people for a lifetime of active citizenship through civic education programs, professional development for educators, and classroom resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Washington high school program: these programs include opportunities for diverse students to learn and practice key citizenship skills, participate in legislative simulations, and interact with policy experts, elected officials, and congressional staff. Each program features community-building activities, thematic site visits, issue-based workshops, policy debates and deliberations that expose students to a range of perspectives, cultural explorations, and seminars and onsite visits to government agencies, ngos, and embassies.
$18,900,226 spent$17,907,200 earned by the program54% of program spendingWashington middle school program: these programs use the nations capital as a living classroom where students explore its iconic sites and discover how the issues and ideals represented impact us today. Through various interactive site visits, workshops, and discussions, students learn the historical events and ideas that have shaped american democracy and gain a deeper understanding of their unique role in our political system.
$14,550,377 spent$15,918,057 earned by the program41% of program spendingProgram for new americans (pna): these programs in washington, d.c., are for high school and middle school students who have immigrated to the u.s. In the last eight years. Students study the roles of the three branches of government in maintaining unity and addressing the needs of a diverse nation, important themes in u.s. Democracy, and the role of citizens in civic involvement and community service, providing them with insight and fostering their confidence for active citizenship.
$992,531 spent$1,110,876 earned by the program3% of program spendingEducational services: educational services includes a breadth of training and resources that close up designs and delivers to educators nationwide to help them bring deliberative dialogue, current policy issues, civic and community engagement, and nonpartisan facilitation to their schools. This includes professional development training for teachers, customized curriculum units, classroom resources such as issue discussions and lesson plans, educator webinars and conferences, and membership in our national network of schools in partnership division.
$704,020 spent$2,491,206 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,147,154.
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 $14M to $19M (+35%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 11% · 2021 23% · 2022 0% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of CLOSE UP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Eric Adydan
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.0M.
23 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CLOSE UP FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 82% · 2018 92% · 2019 89% · 2020 68% · 2021 81% · 2022 77% · 2023 87% — 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
30% of CLOSE UP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CLOSE UP FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.0M on record — $12.0M federal, $10k state.
- Department of the Interior$9.0M
- Department of Education$3.0M
- OR$9k
- FL$650
- NJ$74
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 CLOSE UP FOUNDATION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLOSE UP FOUNDATION: 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 CLOSE UP FOUNDATION?
- CLOSE UP FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,597,814 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($6,965,978). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLOSE UP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $9,597,814 in grants to CLOSE UP FOUNDATION, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLOSE UP FOUNDATION?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,965,978 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLOSE UP FOUNDATION 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 75 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