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FORT MONROE FOUNDATION

FORT MONROE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,551 to it, the largest being THE MARY MORTON PARSONS FOUNDATION ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$67k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$871k
Net assets
$351k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%
01What it does

What Fort Monroe Foundation does

Mission

The Fort Monroe Foundation helps promote and sustain fort monroe, its programs and partners, through fundraising and stewardship of financial resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Fort Monroe Foundation raised over 66,000 during fiscal year 2025, including 6,500 in sponsorships for the music by the bay community concert series, 2,000 to support ongoing programming and research for the indigenous narrative, and over 22,000 for continued cultural events at fort monroe including a community fourth of july. In addition, over 13,000 was raised to support continued educational programming. As well, the foundation transferred over 45,000 to support programming such as the indigienous interpretive project, also known as the canoe project, youth black culture fest, and the anual music by the bay summer concert series. In addition, the foundation supported the fort monroe museum team by funding interns for research into the vast history of the fort, to include military, indigenous and african-american history, as well as interns to support archivists in collating and protecting extensive archives.

    $48,659 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $48,659.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($890k) Expenses 100 ($206k) Net assets 100 ($829k)2020 Revenue 48 ($428k) Expenses 424 ($873k) Net assets 46 ($384k)2021 Revenue 19 ($170k) Expenses 73 ($151k) Net assets 49 ($403k)2022 Revenue 17 ($155k) Expenses 148 ($304k) Net assets 31 ($254k)2023 Revenue 15 ($131k) Expenses 46 ($94k) Net assets 35 ($290k)2024 Revenue 17 ($155k) Expenses 52 ($108k) Net assets 42 ($349k)2025 Revenue 8 ($67k) Expenses 32 ($65k) Net assets 42 ($351k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (8)Expenses (32)Net assets (42)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $830k to $385k (−54%).

$830k
$385k
$403k
$254k
$290k
$349k
$351k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 16% · 2023 14% · 2024 16% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of FORT MONROE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$684k
’19
−$445k
’20
$19k
’21
−$149k
’22
$37k
’23
$47k
’24
$2k
’25
65
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed14131210111211
Joined·+2+0+2+5+5+0
No longer listed·314441
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $113k → $37k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 FORT MONROE 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

FORT MONROE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 FORT MONROE FOUNDATION.

29%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 52% · 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 68% — 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

0% of FORT MONROE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

90% of FORT MONROE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FORT MONROE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve64.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−35% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 17%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FORT MONROE FOUNDATION?
FORT MONROE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $870,551 to it, the largest being THE MARY MORTON PARSONS FOUNDATION ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FORT MONROE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $870,551 in grants to FORT MONROE FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORT MONROE FOUNDATION?
THE MARY MORTON PARSONS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORT MONROE 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.

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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing