Virginia · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA
SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Society of the First African Families of English America does
Mission
The Society of the First African Families of English America is dedicated to researching, preserving, and honoring the history and genealogy of the earliest African families in English America. Through scholarship, education, and public engagement, the Society documents their contributions and works to ensure their stories are recognized as an essential part of the American founding. Our mission is to advance historical truth, promote genealogical research, and safeguard this legacy for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Hosted fourth Annual Conference for the Society of the First African Families of English America, including an America 250 Luncheon and our traditional Black Tie Awards Cocktail Party and our Discussion Summitt
$11,375 spentof which $5,000 as grants97% of program spendingPublished and initiated a book/speaker tour of volume 1 of our award winning book series on the 6K African American men who fought in the revolutionary war
$360 spent3% of program spendingWe entered into a partnership with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to undertake a project named "Revolutionary Massachusetts: Stories of Promise and Progress" which is a public humanities initiative to recover the stories of African, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous patriots whose sacrifices during the American Revolution have too often been excluded from public memory. College students and community members will explore these histories through archival research, oral testimony, tribal knowledge, and descendant voices. They will join arts and literature workshops led by historians, artists, faculty, cultural leaders, and Wampanoag representatives. Through writing, visual art, and performance, students will wrestle with Revolutionary ideals and exclusions, producing unique and creative work, culminating in a public symposium and performance day to showcase the results of thier work and the project.
$0 spentof which $9,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,735.
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 2024 to 2025, from $10k to $19k (+90%).
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.
29% of SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA’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
SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
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
SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,804 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA
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
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA: 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 SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA?
- SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA?
- MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF THE FIRST AFRICAN FAMILIES OF ENGLISH AMERICA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing