Virginia · Nonprofit
FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC
FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $180k
What First Night Alexandria Inc does
Mission
To promote performing and visual arts through a community wide, family oriented, New Year's celebration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
First Night Alexandria is an all day event that includes performing arts for all ages at multiple venues, children's carnival with arts performers and visitors from the greater Washington metro area. and crafts activities, and a grand finale of fireworks at midnight. The event promotes performing and visual arts in alcohol free atmosphere, throughout various locations in the city of Alexandria. This event brings together local community members, performers and visitors from the greater Washington metro area. This year there was 4000 attendees and over 100 volunteers.
$203,210 spentof which $175,459 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $203,210.
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 2023 to 2024, from $277k to $214k (−23%).
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 22% · 2018 25% · 2020 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Marilyn Patterson
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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC
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.
Public support
99%
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 FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC: 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 FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC?
- FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA INC 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 1 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