Virginia · Nonprofit
Richmond Fencing Club
Richmond Fencing Club (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being Caplin Foundation ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $270k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Richmond Fencing Club does
Mission
The Club fosters amateur fencing competition at the local, regional and national level through training, coaching, and providing a venue for formal competition.The Club offers classes for all levels, private lessons, demonstrations, advanced clinics, and summer camps.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Club was the proud sponsor or an invitational fencing tournament with invited professional officiating, the cost for which unaugmented by overhead adjustment because conducted off site in a convention center. The cost were almost entirely offset by Tournament entree fees of $77,220.
$79,299 spent$77,220 earned by the program36% of program spendingMembers have the benefit as Members of being able to practice the skills they are learning right in the facility where they train.
$63,174 spent29% of program spendingThe Club for many years has hosted and will continue to host a summer camp for young people - an opportunity which is well received by the community.
$13,729 spent$14,640 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe Club offers fencing instruction to its members and enjoys a high level of participation in the training program.
$63,174 spent$44,721 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $219,376.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $45k to $157k (+253%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of Richmond Fencing Club’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of Richmond Fencing Club’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.
Where its funders are
Richmond Fencing Club draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Richmond Fencing Club has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Richmond Fencing Club
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Richmond Fencing Club: 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 Richmond Fencing Club?
- Richmond Fencing Club (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being Caplin Foundation ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Richmond Fencing Club have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,000 in grants to Richmond Fencing Club, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Richmond Fencing Club?
- Caplin Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Richmond Fencing Club 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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