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PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC

PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,769 to it, the largest being McLeskey Family Foundation Inc ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$109
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$118k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Public Art Virginia Beach Foundation Inc does

Mission

The organization focused on developing and advancing a five-year strategic plan to enhance public art in Virginia Beach, including planning initiatives, coordination with community stakeholders , and support for public art programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The organization continued to support its mission of advancing public art in virginia beach. During the year, activities were focused on organizational maintenance, strategic planning for future public art initiatives.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The 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 ($192k) Expenses 100 ($155k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2018 Revenue 71 ($136k) Expenses 83 ($128k) Net assets 107 ($127k)2019 Revenue 21 ($40k) Expenses 24 ($38k) Net assets 108 ($129k)2020 Revenue 7 ($14k) Expenses 25 ($39k) Net assets 88 ($105k)2021 Revenue 3 ($5k) Expenses 1 ($2k) Net assets 91 ($108k)2022 Revenue 7 ($13k) Expenses 0 ($721) Net assets 101 ($120k)2023 Revenue 0 ($44) Expenses 0 ($751) Net assets 100 ($119k)2024 Revenue 0 ($113) Expenses 1 ($778) Net assets 99 ($118k)2025 Revenue 0 ($109) Expenses 0 ($736) Net assets 99 ($118k)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (0)Net assets (99)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $129k to $105k (−19%).

$119k
$127k
$129k
$105k
$108k
$120k
$119k
$118k
$118k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$8k
’18
$2k
’19
−$24k
’20
$3k
’21
$12k
’22
−$707
’23
−$665
’24
−$627
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $25.

2 of 5 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 PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH 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

PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

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

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $569 arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−575% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−61% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH 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 PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC?
PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,769 to it, the largest being McLeskey Family Foundation Inc ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,769 in grants to PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH FOUNDATION INC?
McLeskey Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PUBLIC ART VIRGINIA BEACH 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 5 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