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SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,148 to it, the largest being Wellmont Health System dba Bristol Regional Medical Center ($154,648). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Incshared funders
- The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Incportfolio match
- Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 97% · 2018 101% · 2019 106% · 2020 102% · 2021 103% · 2022 109% · 2023 149% · 2024 11% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION’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
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION.
“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
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Incshared fundersVA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Higher Education Research and Scholarship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Design Labportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Community Collegesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carilion New River Valley Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Community Colleges Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater Greenbrier Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friendship Apartment Village Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $650k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$580k
- Department of Agriculture$70k
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 SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION?
- SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,148 to it, the largest being Wellmont Health System dba Bristol Regional Medical Center ($154,648). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $187,148 in grants to SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION?
- Wellmont Health System dba Bristol Regional Medical Center is the largest funder on record, with $154,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing