Virginia · Nonprofit
MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $690,028 to it, the largest being PROJECT DISCOVERY OF VIRGINIA INC ($349,202). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $690k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Monticello Area Community Action Agency does
Mission
To improve the lives of people with low income by helping them become self-reliant, thereby enhancing the economic vitality and well-being of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our educational programs currently provides after school care for children under twelve years of age at two elementary schools in nelson county. We are in the process of opening a low income child care center in the southwood subdivision in charlottesville. The center will provide services for three and four year olds from low income and at-risk families. The program will utilize the montessori method of education.
$185,313 spent22% of program spendingOffices in fluvanna, louisa, and nelson counties provide emergency assistance to families by providing them with food, clothing, and financial resources to cover rent or utility costs. Each site director assesses a client's needs and links them to other resources in the region to help meet their long-term needs.
$357,792 spent43% of program spendingHousing programs that provide transitional housing for homeless families with children in their custody. Families may spend up to 24 months in the hope houses. Hope house provides an opportunity for families to address issues contributing to poverty and work towards economic stability and independence through education, training, and an intense case management program.
$148,730 spent18% of program spendingProject discovery promotes academic achievement as a means of propelling high school students from low income families out of poverty. The program specifically focuses on encouraging and helping these students prepare for and pursue a college education. Students receive assistance with completing college applications, locating financial aid, planning for their careers, and preparing them to excel academically and socially beyond high school.
$133,002 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $824,837.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $2.4M (−15%).
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 87% · 2018 92% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 77% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% · 2024 91% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Sarah Shalf Jd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $64k → $41k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’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
MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 49% · 2019 50% · 2020 53% · 2021 48% · 2022 67% · 2023 77% — 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
80% of MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
97% of MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.4M
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 MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $690,028 to it, the largest being PROJECT DISCOVERY OF VIRGINIA INC ($349,202). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $690,028 in grants to MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- PROJECT DISCOVERY OF VIRGINIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $349,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTICELLO AREA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY 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 8 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