Virginia · Nonprofit
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,559,045 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.
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· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trusteeshared funders
- Cityschools Collaborativeportfolio match
- Stanley and Jolene Sloter Family Foundationportfolio 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 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.0M.
22 of 73 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 73 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 82%; 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; 36% 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 17 statesis 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 73 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trusteeshared fundersOK · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Cityschools Collaborativeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stanley and Jolene Sloter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gamba Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Citybridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Forward DCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hattie M Strong Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lemnisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunrise Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crimsonbridge Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs & Intl Understanding Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crowell & Moring 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 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
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
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.
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 CLOSE UP FOUNDATION?
- CLOSE UP FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,559,045 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 73 organizations giving $9,559,045 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.
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 73funders 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