Virginia · Nonprofit
Dash and Scout
Dash and Scout (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,300 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($105,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Dash and Scout does
Mission
Dash and Scout is a special needs collective for adults with Down syndrome and other varying abilities seeking a meaningful, more independent path. The Dash and Scout concept is unique to Virginia and boasts a series of hands-on programs designed to increase their independence. These programs allow adults with intellectual disabilities to come together for overnight multi-day retreats to experience independent living in an environment customized for individual participants. The experience also allows each family to be a partner in ensuring there is a strong focus on individual goals, growth and progress tracking. This, in turn, helps the participants discover how to create a "Life Recipe" for greater independence though day and weekend programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Dash and Scout designed and executed two pilot programs in 2024: one for women and one for men, all of which had an intellectual disability. We had 8 total participants in the pilot programs. During each weekend participants were given the opportunity to problem solve, make their own decisions and learn how to work as a group. The pilot programs were so successful that six retreat weekends were planned for 2025. The parent survey after each program was used to further develop future weekends and day programs.
$29,896 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,896.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Teresa Lancaster
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Dash and Scout’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
Dash and Scout leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
100% 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 Dash and Scout.
“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
100% of Dash and Scout'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 $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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
Dash and Scout runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Dash and Scout
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dash and Scout: 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 Dash and Scout?
- Dash and Scout (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,300 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($105,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Dash and Scout have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $170,300 in grants to Dash and Scout.
- Who is the largest funder of Dash and Scout?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dash and Scout 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 3 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