Virginia · Nonprofit
THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED
THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042,143 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What The Board of Regents of Gunston Hall Incorporated does
Mission
To stimulate the exploration and understanding of principles expressed by george mason in the 1776 declaration of rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration - providing for the preservation, maintenance, and care of the 554-acre historic site including the 1755 mansion and 12 associated buildings. Work includes projects of various sizes and scopes including mechanical repairs, painting, and planning for the long-term preservation of the property and its assets.
$586,553 spent40% of program spendingEducation - providing educational tours and programs to the visiting public, including school children; researching and designing exhibits, signage, tour and brochure content and assisting with staff and volunteer training.
$432,814 spent$102,229 earned by the program30% of program spendingBusiness enterprises - operating an on-site gift shop and offering private venue rentals. The gift shop provides visitors with access to historical and educational merchandise. In addition, gunston hall offers event space rentals for weddings, scout gatherings, and other celebratory occasions, generating revenue to support the board of regents of gunston hall's broader educational and preservation efforts.
$335,172 spent23% of program spendingCollections and research - gunston hall continues george mason's legacy of continuing education by investing in a world-class, on site reference library, rare book collection, and the largest assembly of mason-family related archives in the united states.
$106,731 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,461,270.
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.
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 $4.6M to $3.7M (−19%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Scott Stroh Iii
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $39k.
11 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $335k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America). These are real filings, and they are not money THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED’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 BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 59% · 2019 73% · 2020 91% · 2021 37% · 2022 74% · 2023 52% — 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
29% of THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
81% of THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED'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 $196k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $846k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED's revenue grew 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $245k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$245k
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 THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gunston Hall Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED: 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 BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED?
- THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042,143 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($500,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,042,143 in grants to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF GUNSTON HALL INCORPORATED 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 19 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