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MONTPELIER FOUNDATION

MONTPELIER FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,068,282 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,782,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$14M
Revenue FY2025
75
Funders on record
$19M
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
47/75 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

MONTPELIER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin60% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.0M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($29M)2018 Revenue 86 ($6.9M) Expenses 95 ($11M) Net assets 88 ($26M)2019 Revenue 99 ($7.9M) Expenses 82 ($9.4M) Net assets 83 ($25M)2020 Revenue 68 ($5.5M) Expenses 65 ($7.5M) Net assets 77 ($23M)2021 Revenue 83 ($6.7M) Expenses 50 ($5.8M) Net assets 87 ($26M)2022 Revenue 90 ($7.2M) Expenses 58 ($6.7M) Net assets 85 ($25M)2023 Revenue 125 ($10M) Expenses 53 ($6.1M) Net assets 99 ($29M)2024 Revenue 66 ($5.3M) Expenses 58 ($6.6M) Net assets 96 ($28M)2025 Revenue 180 ($14M) Expenses 50 ($5.8M) Net assets 71 ($21M)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (50)Net assets (71)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 26% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of MONTPELIER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 816 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.4M
17
$3.9M
18
$1.5M
19
$2.1M
20
$880k
21
$556k
22
$3.9M
23
$1.3M
24
$8.7M
25
24
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.6M.

13 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)13% 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 MONTPELIER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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

MONTPELIER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

25% 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 MONTPELIER FOUNDATION.

30%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 27% · 2023 57%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

52% of MONTPELIER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

MONTPELIER FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 21 states in all.

VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
MS
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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21
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23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 75 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding MONTPELIER FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.

Federal$2.1M
grants $2.1Mcontracts $27k
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Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$864k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$685k
  • Department of the Interior$552k
  • Department of Justice$27k

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 MONTPELIER FOUNDATION

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 13%Fundraising 9%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 50 states

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Montpelier Descendants Committee · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTPELIER FOUNDATION: 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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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 MONTPELIER FOUNDATION?
MONTPELIER FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,068,282 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,782,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MONTPELIER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $19,068,282 in grants to MONTPELIER FOUNDATION, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MONTPELIER FOUNDATION?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,782,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MONTPELIER 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.

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 75funders 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