Virginia · Nonprofit
GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,500). 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 FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Gems Development Foundation does
Mission
Empowering hope. Cultivating opportunity: Gems Development Foundation focuses on onnecting people in need with the resources that will make the most measurable impacts for ustainable financial security, foodsecurity, clean water, and medical care. Gems programs eliver long-term solutions that have been proven to work to support people and communities to become self-sustaining.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sustainable farms, clean water and wells: having a stable food supply is a critical step towards financial and political stability in this fragile region. The process of going to fetch water is a long and arduous one and usually falls to young girls. They must travel hours in each direction, facing wild animals, precarious terrain, and even predatory adults. Even if their journey is a "safe" one, they miss school, putting them behind. Part of this initiative is the installation of wells for clean, uncomtaminated water right in the villages of south sudan where they are so desparately needed.
$42,004 spent93% of program spendingGoats: gems provides goats and other livestock to people in the developing world to foster basic nutritional and economic sustainability and educates farmers on sustainable care and husbandry practices. One goat opens a world of survival and allows a family to have the safety net to pursue education and micro-business. Neighbors can work together to start small local dairies, creating sustainable businesses and breaking the cycle of hunger and extreme poverty. The organization has given out 4000 goats to returning slaves and indentured servants from the north, as well as to hungry families and teachers within twenty-five miles of the border of that area.
$3,200 spent7% of program spendingMedicine: gems provides support for medical education, research and the delivery of much-needed medical services and supplies in the developing world.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,204.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $120k to $33k (−72%).
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.
100% of GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Sharon Edwards
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $34.
2 of 2 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 GEMS DEVELOPMENT 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
GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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 GEMS DEVELOPMENT 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,534 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,500). 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 GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,534 in grants to GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of GEMS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEMS DEVELOPMENT 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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