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OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE
OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,094 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Greater Williamsburg Community Trustlocal
- American Historical Associationportfolio match
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio match
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.
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 7% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 0% · 2022 49% · 2023 11% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $7k → $6k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE’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
OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 58% · 2022 74% · 2023 84% — 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
25% of OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Greater Williamsburg Community TrustlocalVA · funds 31 organizations near you
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Stacpoole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of WilliamsburglocalVA · funds 12 organizations near you
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frances and Beverly Dubose Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairmanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council on Library and Information Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Schiele Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel H Kress Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.7M
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 OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE: 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.
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 OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE?
- OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,094 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $195,094 in grants to OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OMOHUNDRO INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE 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 8funders 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