Virginia · Nonprofit
IN MEDIAS RES
IN MEDIAS RES (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,324,300 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,895,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What In Medias Res does
Mission
Educate the public and vital leadership groups in society about the nature and challenges of postmodern culture and to conduct basic research into a humane and democratic response to these challenges. (see schedule o).the foundation supports the work of the institute for advanced studies in culture at the university of virginia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct financial support for the institute for advanced studies in culture at the university of virgina.
$1,500,000 spentof which $1,500,000 as grants39% of program spendingCoordination of colloquia, conferences, and seminars. Provide basic research activities on the nature, contours, and challenges of contemporary society. Also, provide editorial, consulting, and administrative services for writers conducting research on the nature, contours, and challenges of contemporary society.
$2,247,167 spentof which $90,000 as grants$1,278 earned by the program59% of program spendingBasic research activities to provide education and formation of scholars through a fellowship and scholarship program that strives to train, mentor, credential, and place a generation of scholars in colleges, universities, foundations, and think tanks.
$74,507 spentof which $74,507 as grants2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,821,674.
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 $1.8M to $6.0M (+235%).
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 16% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of IN MEDIAS RES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Mr Frank Batten Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $704k → $4.6M.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $987k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Imr Support Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money IN MEDIAS RES raised.
From the IRS filings of IN MEDIAS RES’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
IN MEDIAS RES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
35% 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 IN MEDIAS RES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 63% · 2020 27% · 2021 54% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — 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
46% of IN MEDIAS RES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
IN MEDIAS RES draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
IN MEDIAS RES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding IN MEDIAS RES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like IN MEDIAS RES
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Imr Support Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IN MEDIAS RES: 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 IN MEDIAS RES?
- IN MEDIAS RES (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,324,300 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,895,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IN MEDIAS RES have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $19,324,300 in grants to IN MEDIAS RES, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IN MEDIAS RES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,895,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IN MEDIAS RES 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.
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 20 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