Virginia · Nonprofit
Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc
Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,924,281 to it, the largest being THE DEBRA K HOWE CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,060,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc does
Mission
NOVA Foundation supports the college's goal of providing all students with a high-quality, life-changing education. The Foundation raises private funds to enhance nova programs, create student scholarships and offer awards to faculty for programs not supported by state funds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support of College Programs: The NOVA Foundation exists to significantly increase private philanthropy to build a strong endowment, secure resources to fund NOVA's strategic priorities and sustain initiatives that strengthen the college's community partnerships. The Foundation supports unmet academic and student services needs and workforce programs on all six campuses and through NOVA online. It provides awards to faculty and staff annually for programs and professional development not covered by the state budget.
$6,474,514 spent91% of program spendingStudent Scholarships and Grants: The NOVA Foundation assists students in obtaining necessary financial resources needed to complete their program of study at Northern Virginia Community College as well as monetary assistance to students to abate short-term financial crises. We educate donors about student needs including the unique challenges facing first generation college students to secure private donations. These scholarships and grants help to remove financial barriers for NOVA students. Our scholarship program consists of more than 325 endowed and annual scholarship funds. This translates to more than 600 individual scholarship awards throughout the year.
$572,138 spentof which $572,138 as grants8% of program spendingRegistrations: Supporting college programs through collecting program registrations and facilitating payments from these funds.
$85,784 spent$105,780 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,132,436.
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 2020 to 2021, from $25M to $30M (+22%).
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.
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
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
Kelly Persons
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $293k → $761k.
12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $512k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
38% 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 Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 61% · 2019 33% · 2020 50% · 2021 46% · 2022 54% · 2023 34% — 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
29% of Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
56% of Northern Virginia Community College Educational 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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like Northern Virginia Community College Educational 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Northern Va Community College Real Estate FDN · exempt
- Northern Virginia Community College · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc?
- Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,924,281 to it, the largest being THE DEBRA K HOWE CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,060,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,924,281 in grants to Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc?
- THE DEBRA K HOWE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern Virginia Community College Educational 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.
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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 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing