Virginia · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,242 to it, the largest being THE GENAN FOUNDATION ($750,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Mountain Empire Community College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to foster and promote the growth, progress, and general welfare of the mountain empire community college and the virginia community college system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Receiving and allocating scholarships for the benefit of mountain empire community college students, as well as funding professional development for employees, faculty projects to foster student success, cultural events for students and the community, and physical improvements to the campus.
$1,590,744 spentof which $1,475,944 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,590,744.
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 $40M to $46M (+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: 2019 23% · 2020 48% · 2021 29% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% · 2024 26% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Dr Amy Greear
Executive director
Board chair
Leton Harding Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $89k → $438k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’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
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 70% · 2019 90% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 86% · 2023 57% — 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
43% of MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 60% 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
83% of MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Education$823k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$494k
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 MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mountain Empire Community College · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,503,242 to it, the largest being THE GENAN FOUNDATION ($750,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,503,242 in grants to MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE GENAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC 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 10 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