Virginia · Nonprofit
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,250 to it, the largest being Learning Ally Inc ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Public Education Foundation of Charlottesville-Albemarle does
Mission
Through our passion for public education, we support 17,000 students in albemarle county and charlottesville to grow and thrive in all academic disciplines by providing resources and opportunities with the help of the community and local businesses. We are a high-impact foundation committed to building programs that will transform education in our community and provide a model for school systems across the nation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
A.the Public Education Foundation of Charlottesville-Albemarle works to reach every student,teacher, and administrator in the public school system in two districts. We have produced more than 8 summer camp experiences for students which include stem learning and a fine arts program, dozens of in-class special projects, 4 field trips, more than 5 special game days at various grade levels, and 18 teacher innovation grants spanning 12 grades and 10 subject areas. We have impacted over 8,000 students since our inception and in 2025 our teacher grants supported aproximately 5,000 students and 250 teachers.
$32,810 spentof which $19,308 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $135k to $165k (+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.
97% of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $16k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE’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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE
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.
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE?
- PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,250 to it, the largest being Learning Ally Inc ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $136,250 in grants to PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE?
- Learning Ally Inc is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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