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MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,949 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($50,889). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$136k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$51k
Net assets
$54k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Milky Way Educational and Cultural Association does

Mission

Gather, coordinate, and engage activities to promote and preserve culture, language, customs and traditions of Azerbaijani speaking populations living in the USA. Provide community, cultural and educational services, conduct humanitarian activities, provide assistance and help Azerbaijani new comers living and integrating in the USA.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, INCs purpose is to gather, coordinate, and engage activities to promote and preserve culture, language, customs and traditions of Azerbaijani speaking populations living in United States of America. The organization will provide community, cultural and educational services, conduct humanitarian activities, provide assistance and help Azerbaijani new comers living and integrating in the US. MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, INC. will also introduce American culture to Azerbaijani new comers.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2019 Revenue 122 ($68k) Expenses 141 ($64k) Net assets 134 ($13k)2020 Revenue 141 ($78k) Expenses 86 ($40k) Net assets 535 ($51k)2021 Revenue 141 ($78k) Expenses 131 ($60k) Net assets 720 ($69k)2022 Revenue 216 ($120k) Expenses 218 ($100k) Net assets 930 ($89k)2023 Revenue 145 ($80k) Expenses 269 ($124k) Net assets 436 ($42k)2024 Revenue 188 ($104k) Expenses 224 ($103k) Net assets 383 ($37k)2025 Revenue 245 ($136k) Expenses 259 ($119k) Net assets 561 ($54k)
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Revenue (245)Expenses (259)Net assets (561)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $13k to $62k (+385%).

$10k
$13k
$62k
$80k
$90k
$42k
$37k
$54k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’18
$3k
’19
$38k
’20
$18k
’21
$20k
’22
−$43k
’23
$1k
’24
$17k
’25
5.4
months of
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.

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Listed4491010999
Joined·+0+6+3+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0120100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $23k → $28k.

Funder
'22
'23
'26*
total
funders
2
2
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION’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

MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

0
board members
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Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,949 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($50,889). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,949 in grants to MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,889 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILKY WAY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing