Virginia · Nonprofit
GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP
GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,274,411 to it, the largest being Honey Foundation ($1,822,375). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership does
Mission
Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership changed its trade name to swimrva in 2014. The mission of swimrva (grap) is to serve as a catalyst for water safety, health and fitness, sports tourism, competitive aquatics, and possibility, for all richmonders. Swimrva is building social bridges through aquatics that cross physical, racial, and economic barriers. Swimrva is working to change the course of human history as it relates to aquatics in the richmond region by focusing on under-served communities. 70 percent of african american children do not learn how to swim and a staggering 50% of the population in the united states does not know how to swim. 79 percent of children from households with income below 50,000 do not learn how to swim and drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death for all children. Swimrva is working to stop the cycle of non-swimming giving richmond residents an avenue for health equity in all corners of the our region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Learn to swim: learn to swim: teach every second-grade child in the richmond region how to swim. We provide cost-free swimming lessons to second graders in 6 school divisions throughout the richmond region. Swimrva is working to inspire, implement and sustain a seven-lesson curriculum in 152 elementary schools across 12 jurisdictions. Since inception (2012), swimrva has taught 20,495 children through the cost-free program. The need is staggering as 79% of children in the us from households with income under 50,000 will never learn to swim. Drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death for kids under 14 and african-american children drown at rates five times that of the rest of the population.
$2,050,691 spent$1,506,481 earned by the program34% of program spendingSwimrva workforce development: swimrva has grown safety training courses and increased the workforce supply of aquatic professionals. The safety school combines training for aquatic safety professionals, safety professional trainers, certified pool operators and program management skills. Swimrva is elevating the region with the creation of a one-stop academy for aspiring lifeguards and the professional certifications businesses in our region's aquatic industry need to grow their professional staff - lifeguard instructors and certified pool operators. The combination of services is steadily improving the aquatic professional's core competencies throughout the richmond region. Swimrva additionally delivers a groundbreaking cost-free lifeguard training program in 8 high schools throughout the region, representing four school divisions. Together, swimrva certified 727 professionals last year.
$875,896 spent$643,452 earned by the program14% of program spendingHealth and wellness: creating health equity through aquatics. The organization is working to create equitable access to aquatics throughout the region. Historically, aquatics have been exclusive due to financial and social limitations. Swimrva is working to ensure every richmonder has access to be active through aquatic opportunities. In fy25 swimrva supported the community with over 190,000 in scholarships to families at or below 300% of the federal poverty level for programs ranging from youth summer camps, swim lessons, competitive aquatic teams, facility passes and our wellness programs. Swimrva swim aid is on track to deliver over 225,000 in financial support in fy26. The organization has a particularly strong engagement with seniors throughout the region. Swimrva served over 600 seniors a week with over 70 group exercise courses a week. The organization is fighting senior isolation and working to ensure our seniors live younger, longer.
$460,089 spent$337,991 earned by the program8% of program spendingCompetitive aquatics: the goal is to elevate competitive aquatics in the richmond region through inspiring growth in competitive swimming programming and bringing the nation's largest events to the commonwealth. Swimrva's flagship facility is home to the 2008 u.s. Olympic trials competition pool. The nine world records, 21 american records that have been set in swimrva's pool, make it the fastest pool on the eastern seaboard. Swimrva supports major competitive programs representing usa swimming, u.s. Masters swimming, usa water polo, usa artistic swimming and special olympics. Swimrva is the only aquatics provider in the middle atlantic to support programming across five governing bodies in aquatic sport. At swimrva's flagship facility 34 multi-day events and a grand total of 112 days of competition were supported during the fiscal year generating over 7 million in economic impact for the richmond region.
$2,680,029 spent$1,968,806 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,066,705.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $13M (+5%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 16% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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 5 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $398k → $918k.
11 of 41 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 GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% 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 GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 81% · 2019 42% · 2020 39% · 2021 24% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% — 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
56% of GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
73% of GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP has grown faster than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP?
- GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,274,411 to it, the largest being Honey Foundation ($1,822,375). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $5,274,411 in grants to GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP?
- Honey Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,822,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP 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 41 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