Virginia · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS (Virginia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,832,791 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,396,850). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Annabella R Jenkins Foundationshared funderslocal
- Virginia Credit Union Incportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $187k → $927k.
9 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $1.0M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS raised.
From the IRS filings of METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 32% · 2019 39% · 2020 63% · 2021 65% · 2022 55% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.
“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
60% of METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
92% of METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
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 52 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Incshared fundersportfolio matchOH · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Annabella R Jenkins Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you
- Virginia Credit Union Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Under Armour Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Im Dena & Chris Moore Family Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jackson Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 22 organizations near you
- Shelton H Short Jr Trustshared fundersMO · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Herndon Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 124 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you
- Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalitionshared funderslocalVA · backs 99 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairnshared funderslocalPA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you
- Massey Family Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- The Reinhart Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: 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 METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS?
- METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS (Virginia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,832,791 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,396,850). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,832,791 in grants to METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,396,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS 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 52funders 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