Virginia · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,010,682 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($960,302). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$56M
Recipients
748
Contributions on record
$4.4M
Donors on record
54
Payments out run 12.7x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared funders
- Scholarship America Incportfolio match
- The Colliswarner Foundation Incportfolio 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.
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $145k → $490k.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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: $383k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc); $34k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
52% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
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 47 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Colliswarner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- H7 Foundation FKA Commonwealth Foundation IIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Noland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fredrickson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smithfield Foods Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Clark-Winchcole Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 96 organizations that share your funders
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,010,682 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($960,302). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,010,682 in grants to THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $960,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC 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 47funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing