Virginia · Nonprofit
The American Lyceum
The American Lyceum (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $618,120 to it, the largest being J-P CONTE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($420,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $966
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $618k
- Net assets
- $38k
What The American Lyceum does
Mission
The American Lyceum is dedicated to facilitating and educating the public on constitutional values of American exceptionalism, liberty, and civil discourse through idea-centric debates, research, and scholarly writing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This year saw the American Lyceum working primarily on a book draft, thanks to a generous grant, and an AI news aggregator project to encourage unbiased news and logical thinking. There were significant discussions and networking to promote the debate reality show idea.
$19,252 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $32k to $173k (+444%).
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.
100% of The American Lyceum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $220k → $386k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 The American Lyceum’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
The American Lyceum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
The American Lyceum draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
The American Lyceum's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,804 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The American Lyceum
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
0%
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 The American Lyceum: 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 The American Lyceum?
- The American Lyceum (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $618,120 to it, the largest being J-P CONTE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($420,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The American Lyceum have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $618,120 in grants to The American Lyceum, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The American Lyceum?
- J-P CONTE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The American Lyceum 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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