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Virginia · Nonprofit
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) is funded by 102 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $16,013,573 in grants to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($1,952,760). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 20,094 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20,094 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
0% of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (50% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $81k → $244k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
32 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 funders by total. Association, not causation.
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 19% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
41% of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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.
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 102 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
0% of spending goes to programs.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 102funders 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. view filing