Virginia · Nonprofit
SMART CITY WORKS INC
SMART CITY WORKS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,390 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ($25,390). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $381k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Smart City Works Inc does
Mission
Transform northern virginia and the greater washington region into a global urban innovation hub and national testbed for new digital services and capabilities to improve the livability, sustainability, health, and resilience cities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The northern virginia smart region initiative is a three-year initiative to help foster nova as a world-renowned center of excellence for urban technology innovation, and destination for digital technology companies to build and grow their businesses. The initiative is led by smart city works and through a public-private partnership with universities, private sector, and government, we aim to fill a much-needed gap supporting technology start-ups and smes in northern virginia, accelerating their growth, and creating commercialization pathways to spur sustained regional economic growth. As companies grow, the region creates jobs, attracts new talent, catalyzes innovation, and helps advance nova as a magnet region for digital innovation, job opportunities, and cutting-edge urban technologies. Current program offerings include: 1) sourcing new and emerging technologies to solve key urban challenges; 2) fostering growth and education of tech startups through mentoring and business acceleration programs; 3) developing and running regional test beds and living laboratories to support validation pilot projects; 4) designing and running innovation challenge programs focused on…
$305,933 spentof which $5,000 as grants$2,342 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $305,933.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $76k to $181k (+138%).
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 3% · 2022 23% · 2023 16% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SMART CITY WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Debora Schantz-Hiscott
Executive director
Board chair
David Heyman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SMART CITY WORKS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SMART CITY WORKS 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
SMART CITY WORKS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SMART CITY WORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Commerce$750k
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 SMART CITY WORKS 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
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 SMART CITY WORKS 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 SMART CITY WORKS INC?
- SMART CITY WORKS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,390 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ($25,390). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SMART CITY WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,390 in grants to SMART CITY WORKS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART CITY WORKS INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART CITY WORKS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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