Virginia · Nonprofit
Friends of Richmond Community High School
Friends of Richmond Community High School (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $648,433 to it, the largest being THE JACKSON FOUNDATION ($461,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $208k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $648k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Friends of Richmond Community High School does
Mission
Friends of Richmond Community High Schools purpose is to support experiential and other learning opportunities for the students of Richmond Community High School and other RPS schools. We provide programs and support for student academics career readiness programming community service experiences school cultural and mental health initiatives and hands on experiential learning programs to develop the whole student. The nonprofit helps to prepare students for higher education and to become involved global citizens. Focused on programming that raises individuals from opportunity challenged backgrounds,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Managed all intake of fees for Freshman Mini-mester Camping Trip alumni reunions and school field trip fees
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Provided out of school and experiential learning opportunities including student mini-mester trips for in the field learning student learning through service initiatives weeklong freshman orientation and community garden urban agriculture program.
$76,732 spent48% of program spendingProvided classroom supplies educational materials technology subscriptions student teacher activities upgrades to classrooms and elective education purchases.
$33,176 spent21% of program spendingOutfitted all classrooms with smart boards and relevant technology for enhanced teaching practices.
$27,518 spent17% of program spendingProvided for student scholarships.
$4,500 spent3% of program spendingProvided for alumni engagement activities
$9,593 spent6% of program spendingOffice supplies event supplies and special event programs for students
$8,951 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,470.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $111k to $74k (−33%).
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.
84% of Friends of Richmond Community High School’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. 2 of the last 6 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
Alison Owens
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $52k → $84k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Friends of Richmond Community High School’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
Friends of Richmond Community High School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 67% · 2023 72% — 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
50% of Friends of Richmond Community High School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
94% of Friends of Richmond Community High School's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Friends of Richmond Community High School runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Richmond Community High School
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Friends of Richmond Community High School: 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 Friends of Richmond Community High School?
- Friends of Richmond Community High School (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $648,433 to it, the largest being THE JACKSON FOUNDATION ($461,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Richmond Community High School have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $648,433 in grants to Friends of Richmond Community High School, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Richmond Community High School?
- THE JACKSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $461,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Richmond Community High School 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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