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JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC
JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,522,213 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($531,692). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Perry Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio match
- The Roller-Bottimore Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 56% · 2021 9% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 29% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $23k → $127k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC’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
JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 94% · 2019 90% · 2020 65% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 35% — 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
44% of JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
61% of JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC'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 $593k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $929k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
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 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Perry Foundation Incshared funderslocalVA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roller-Bottimore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairmanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thalhimer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peebles Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Leroy Atwell and Lucy Williams Atwell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Coleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Capa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rouse-Bottom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The International Coalition of Sites of Conscienceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rimora Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 35 organizations near you
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.
Government funding JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $144k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$110k
- National Endowment for the Arts$34k
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 JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC
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.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC?
- JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,522,213 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($531,692). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,522,213 in grants to JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $531,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC 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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing