Virginia · Nonprofit
COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,545 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($101,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Committee for Excellence in Education does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to create, enrich and expand educational opportunities for fauquier county public schools. They find equitable programs that enhance student learning experiences and citizenship. They create and fund programs that prepare and engage students with diverse populations, cultures, and technologies. They provide financial assistance to teachers and administrators enabling them to participate in conferences, seminars, workshops, and cultural programs to further their professional development and impact their classrooms. They are dedicated to creating innovative programs and cultivating partnerships with local and regional corporations, foundations, and individual donors to better serve fauquier county public schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Teacher of the year awards: the foundation provides a check of 500 to all fauquier county public schools teacher of the year nominees in april of every year. Tuition reimbursement grants: the foundation provides grants to fauquier county public schools full-time or part-time permanent classified employees, as well as teachers who are not fully certified or are seeking additional relevant certifications to pursue courses leading to professional teacher licensure or certifications that will enhance their current position. These grants reimburse employees for courses of up to 500 per semester from accredited colleges or universities and programs that earn additional certifications. Applications for tuition assistance are accepted on a rolling basis.
$14,551 spentof which $14,551 as grants11% of program spendingProfessional development grants: for more than 40 years the foundation has provided financial assistance to dedicated fauquier county public school teachers, educators, and administrators to participate in professional development opportunities that directly impact classroom teaching or enhance a school's overall learning environment.
$16,803 spentof which $16,803 as grants13% of program spendingMy first book club: this program supports at-risk preschool students by improving literacy skills, promoting peer interaction, and fostering a love of reading. The foundation provides students with a new book each month for classroom and home reading, along with a small bookshelf to build their first personal library. Contributions that the foundation made to fauquier county public schools: amounts were used to reduce school lunch debt, dolly parton's imagination library, chromebooks purchases for hm pearson elementary school, culinary departments at fauquier county high schools, and a newline display machine purchase at liberty high school.
$100,458 spentof which $84,541 as grants76% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,812.
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 2020 to 2021, from $96k to $181k (+88%).
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.
83% of COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Ron Ferrell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION’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
COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 54% · 2022 100% · 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
98% of COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: 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 COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION?
- COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,545 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($101,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $164,545 in grants to COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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