Virginia · Nonprofit
LEAD VIRGINIA
LEAD VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,723 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($120,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $868k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $483k
What Lead Virginia does
Mission
Lead Virginia connects leaders to shape the commonwealth's future through an annual program of educational forums and regional session visits to six diverse regions of virginia. Framed around social capital theory and curriculum themes of economy, education and health, Lead Virginia's annual program attracts high performing leaders, challenges pre-conceived notions and provides participants with a 360-degree perspective of virginia's regions and their mutual interdependence. Graduates of the program are informed on issues important to virginia's future and prepared to serve at local, regional and statewide capacities with their statewide perspective.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Statewide leadership program designed to connect leaders to build "social capital", educate participants on issues facing the different regions of virginia, and generate possible solutions to statewide challenges.
$564,230 spent$343,147 earned by the program95% of program spendingLead Virginia encourages alumni engagement following completion of its annual class program by offering events designed to stimulate intellectual inquiry, stay informed on timely topics and continue to build social capital among its alumni network of high performing leaders across the commonwealth. Events include the conversations with leaders speaker series and an annual alumni conference.
$31,175 spent$21,799 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $595,405.
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 2020 to 2021, from $807k to $666k (−17%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 5% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of LEAD VIRGINIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $32k → $61k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $134k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LEAD VIRGINIA raised.
From the IRS filings of LEAD VIRGINIA’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
LEAD VIRGINIA 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2019 57% · 2020 64% · 2021 79% · 2022 53% · 2023 49% — 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
33% of LEAD VIRGINIA'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
57% of LEAD VIRGINIA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LEAD VIRGINIA's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,131 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEAD VIRGINIA
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAD VIRGINIA: 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 LEAD VIRGINIA?
- LEAD VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $383,723 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($120,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAD VIRGINIA have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $383,723 in grants to LEAD VIRGINIA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD VIRGINIA?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD VIRGINIA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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