Virginia · Nonprofit
FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,602 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($253,280). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $647k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $914k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Falls Church Education Foundation does
Mission
The Falls Church Education Foundation's mission is to ensure that our students are prepared to effectively meet the challenges of the 21st century. The foundation provides all friends of the falls church city public schools with a means to contribute a legacy of support for the system's edcational excellence. Our commitment to educational excellence will guarantee that the unique identity and values of our community will be sustained.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2023-2024, the Falls Church Education Foundation fundraising campaigns were successful with increased proceeds from our "annual gala & auction", "run for the schools", "the little city scramble event and our falls church "home & garden tour event" combined with strong support from our community. The foundation was able to disburse funds through our super grants innovation program, our advanced training grants staff educational support program, wellness grants, esol, special education programs, support for pta/teacher grants and student scholarships.
$507,618 spentof which $406,360 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $507,618.
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.
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 $1.4M to $1.9M (+36%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Suzanne Hladky
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $57k → $96k.
9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 83% · 2019 64% · 2020 60% · 2021 48% · 2022 38% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“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
86% of FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
78% of FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $204k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION 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 FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $913,602 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($253,280). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $913,602 in grants to FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $253,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FALLS CHURCH EDUCATION 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 15 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