Virginia · Nonprofit
MAYMONT FOUNDATION
MAYMONT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,969,369 to it, the largest being THE STEVEN & KATHERINE MARKEL FOUNDATION ($1,062,375). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Maymont Foundation does
Mission
The Maymont Foundation is committed to creating experiences that delight, educate and inspire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historic resources, gardens and grounds - maymont's 100 acres are open daily and serve over 1,000,000 visitors annually through the expansive grounds and historic gardens, nationally registered historic house museum, 22-vehicle antique carriage collection, original outbuildings and an arboretum home to national and state champion trees.
$1,240,380 spent$417,539 earned by the program18% of program spendingWildlife & animal habitats - maymont is home to 300+ animals (80+ species) that reside in native habitats at the maymont farm and robins nature center. These animals are cared for by staff zoologists and aquarists, and have been rescued and rehomed after being injured or abandoned in the wild and rehabiliated by professionals. The robins nature center highlights the ecology of the james river and offers experiences in natural history of the area and environmental stewardship to over 40,000 visitors annually.
$1,540,672 spent$544,839 earned by the program23% of program spendingEducation and community programs - maymont offers community and public historic programming through guided and self-guided audio tours of the historic house museum, gardens, and grounds. Garden programs include workshops, classes, garden and arboretum walking tours, children's programs and master gardener training classes. Maymont educators provide science and social studies education to more than 16,000 students through school programming, summer camps, and community programs. Maymont's outdoor engagement and enrichment on the expansive grounds attract more than 80,000 guests annually for art, cultural, and music events including garden glow, herbs galore and more, dominion energy family easter, summer kickoff, and merry market.
$4,051,175 spent$4,665,713 earned by the program59% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,832,227.
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 2024 to 2025, from $36M to $40M (+13%).
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 10% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 19% · 2021 31% · 2022 34% · 2023 15% · 2024 9% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of MAYMONT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% 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.
Chief executive
C Parke Richeson
Executive director
Board chair
Theresa Wills
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.2M.
13 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MAYMONT FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MAYMONT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
MAYMONT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 27% · 2019 43% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 20% · 2023 12% — 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
62% of MAYMONT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
82% of MAYMONT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MAYMONT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MAYMONT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.4M on record.
- Department of Commerce$8.4M
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 MAYMONT FOUNDATION
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mfreh LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION?
- MAYMONT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,969,369 to it, the largest being THE STEVEN & KATHERINE MARKEL FOUNDATION ($1,062,375). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAYMONT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $7,969,369 in grants to MAYMONT FOUNDATION, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAYMONT FOUNDATION?
- THE STEVEN & KATHERINE MARKEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,062,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAYMONT FOUNDATION 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 102 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