Virginia · Nonprofit
GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES
GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,327 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($530,300). 5 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 FY2024
- $769k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $710k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Global Friendship Ventures does
Mission
To faciliate friendship and community among international students studying in norfolk, virginia area. To provide assistance to international students seeking to understand how to adapt to collegiate life in the united states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Expenses related to providing assitance to international students seeking to understand how to adapt to collegiate life in the united states by offering housing and programs while residing in the residence hall.
$746,477 spent$3,605 earned by the program97% of program spendingProgram expenses expenses related to providing activities for all international students at universities in the hampton roads area which includes meals with students, welcome bags, welcome luncheon and tour of the area, friday night dinners with speakers relevant to international students, wives activities, thanksgiving banquet, food for students financially struggling, receiving and distributing furniture and items to furnish apartsments, sports viewing parties, trips to local attractions and a day trip to lake gaston for meals and water sports.
$9,812 spent1% of program spendingOther expenses related to providing activities for all international students atuniversities in the hampton roads area which includes meals with students,welcome bags, welcome luncheon and tour of the area, friday night dinnerswith speakers relevant to international students, wives activities, thanksgiving banquet, food for students financially struggling, receiving and distributing furniture and items to furnish apartsments, sports viewing parties, trips to local attractions and a day trip to lake gaston for meals and water sports.
$11,618 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $767,907.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $4.1M (−6%).
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.
54% of GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $321k → $57k.
8 of 9 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 GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES’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
GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 58% · 2019 65% · 2020 60% · 2021 59% · 2022 61% · 2023 56% — 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
60% of GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
100% of GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $708k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Global Friendship House LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES: 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 GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES?
- GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,327 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($530,300). 5 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 GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $710,327 in grants to GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $530,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL FRIENDSHIP VENTURES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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