Virginia · Nonprofit
POWHATAN SCHOOL INC
POWHATAN SCHOOL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,926 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($400,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $730k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Powhatan School Inc does
Mission
To provide educational experiences that promote academic skills, problem solving, and analytical thinking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Powhatan provides educational experiences that promote academic skills, problem solving, and analytical thinking. The school offers opportunities in extracurricular activities, instruction in music, art, drama, public speaking, athletics, and computer technology. Powhatan strives to build cooperation through teamwork, to encourage trust and respect for self and others, and to instill a lifelong love for learning and excellence. Powhatan believes that multicultural diversity within the school creates the richest possible climate for learning. Powhatan feels an obligation to serve as many students and abilities as the resources and mission will permit. Powhatan school provides educational experiences that are appropriate for the learning style, age, and development of each child. Powhatan serves 260 children in grades pre-k through eight.
$5,592,833 spentof which $390,010 as grants$6,123,074 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,592,833.
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 $15M to $16M (+9%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 15% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of POWHATAN SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $68k → $46k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 POWHATAN SCHOOL 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
POWHATAN SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 POWHATAN SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 98% · 2019 79% · 2020 33% · 2021 43% · 2022 29% · 2023 54% — 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
50% of POWHATAN SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
81% of POWHATAN SCHOOL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $139k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $591k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
POWHATAN SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like POWHATAN SCHOOL 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POWHATAN SCHOOL 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 POWHATAN SCHOOL INC?
- POWHATAN SCHOOL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,926 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($400,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POWHATAN SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $729,926 in grants to POWHATAN SCHOOL INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POWHATAN SCHOOL INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POWHATAN SCHOOL 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 17 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