Virginia · Nonprofit
TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE (Virginia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,395,271 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($860,175). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Tandem Friends School of Charlottesville does
Mission
Rooted in quaker values, Tandem Friends School of Charlottesville prepares young people for higher education and fulfilling lives of integrity, creative expression, and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional services - in support of its mission, the school delivered a 9-month, two-semester comprehensive college-preparatory education during the august-june school year, for approximately 250 students in grades 5-12, as well as a co-curricular program of community activities, and a dedicated college counseling service. We graduated 30 students, 29 of whom were admitted to four-year colleges. Expenses for these services included salaries of teachers, administration, and staff, as well as operating expenses specifically needed to deliver and improve these services both on our campus and in the broader community.
$7,359,722 spentof which $2,413,960 as grants$7,718,350 earned by the program94% of program spendingAuxiliary services - to supplement the academic program, the school provided a range of other educational services and extracurricular activities, which included a learning resources center staffed by tandem friends tutors to provide on campus academic support for our students. Approximately, one third of enrolled students availed themselves to some degree in this program. Tandem also offers varsity, junior varsity, and middle school sports for students in three seasons, and a drama program that produced short and full-length plays and musicals during the school year. Expenses for these programs included salaries of administrators, coaches, and ancillary support personnel, as well as material operating expenses required to field teams, tutor students, and to produce theatrical performances.
$449,109 spentof which $27,083 as grants$211,251 earned by the program6% of program spendingSummer program - in the summers of 2024 and 2025, the school hosted a summer camp program for students, ages 6-13, both from Tandem Friends School of Charlottesville and from outside the tandem friends community. The program offered classes in arts, crafts, music, athletics, and outdoor activities. A variety of full day hands-on courses were delivered in three two-week sessions. The camp is entirely administered by tandem, which employs the camp director and camp counselors. In addition to putting the beautiful tandem friends campus to use during the summer months, the camp also serves as a valuable marketing tool to attract potential new admissions and reinforces tandem friends' image as school that welcomes and nurtures creativity and freedom of expression.
$56,931 spent$76,606 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,865,762.
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.
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 $7.1M to $11M (+50%).
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: 2020 9% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $71k → $315k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE’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
TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 48% · 2019 58% · 2020 41% · 2021 53% · 2022 81% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
64% of TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE'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. Of the $637k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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.
Organizations like TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE?
- TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE (Virginia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,395,271 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($860,175). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,395,271 in grants to TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $860,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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