West Virginia · Nonprofit
THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE
THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE (West Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,034 to it, the largest being LOVE X FOUNDATION LLC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $319k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $91k
What The Arlington Institute does
Mission
Inform and prepare the public for the major global changes that will dominate our lives throughout the next decade.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Founder and President of the organization passed away in late summer 2025. In response, the organization temporarily paused its programs in fall 2025 to evaluate the most effective path forward in fulfilling its mission. During this period, expenses were reduced and a strategic planning process was undertaken to determine future direction. The organization's activities were largely managed by volunteers throughout this transitional phase.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Transition Talks is a speakers' series that has run unabated for over 30 year. Monthly we host special speakers from many disciplines to speak both to a live and live-streamed audience about subjects related to major changes transpiring in the world. In the past year we have brought about 1,500 people to our West Virginia location for our programs and reached over 3,000 by live-stream. Attendees pay a fee for each event.
$135,643 spent$141,217 earned by the program61% of program spendingOnline public programs: The Arlington Institute produces a number of communications programs designed to help inform and educate interested members of the public about the big changes transpiring in the world today. FuturEdition, our semi-monthly newsletter has been published for over 30 years and reaches an extended audience of about 20,000 readers. Quartet is an online discussion program featuring four panelists that fortnightly reaches about 10,000 people. What's Up features John Petersen and Gregg Braden fortnightly in unstructured conversation about trends currently in play and the future directions they may suggest. PostScripts is John Petersen's video blog which is generated 3-4 times per month. Each of these offerings reach about 10,000 people. These programs were paused in the fall 2025 after the Founder and President's death.
$85,136 spent$47,521 earned by the program39% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,779.
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 2024 to 2025, from $16k to $91k (+462%).
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.
41% of THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Lutter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ARLINGTON INSTITUTE’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 ARLINGTON INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
“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 ARLINGTON INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34 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
THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE
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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE: 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 ARLINGTON INSTITUTE?
- THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE (West Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,034 to it, the largest being LOVE X FOUNDATION LLC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,034 in grants to THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE?
- LOVE X FOUNDATION LLC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARLINGTON INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West 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 2 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