Virginia · Nonprofit
THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT
THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,000 to it, the largest being Episcopal Church Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $6k
What The Episcopal Project does
Mission
The Episcopal Projects's purpose is to help episcopal churches and organizations protect their history and to help episcopal churches use its history to care for its people now and into the future. By providing expertise and means for immediate and long-term care of their historical records, individual stories, and sacred spaces, we seek to creat tools and digital infrastructure that serves the episcopal church and its congregations. We give special attention to church records and individual stories at the greatest risk of being lost due to the age of our elders, locations in areas of environmental threat or disaster, and the dispacement of people and records due to church closures, and the consolidation of churches in rural and urban environments. In addition, we focus on preserving and protecting records and recording stories that reflect the full history of the episcopal church, including those of people and places that may not have received warranted attention to date.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This was the third year of operation for the Episcopal Project (EP). Achievements included obtaining 1st grant from the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC) for work with the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia; obtaining 1st grant from the Virginia Humanities to digitize and make available to the public more than 500 pages of records, ranging in date between 1723 and 1821, of two colonial parishes in Tidewater, Virginia; working with Pine Ridge Episcopal Mission in South Dakota to create an archival inventory of the records of 9 Episcopal churches, ranging in date from the 1870s to the present; and presenting free webinar with the Episcopal Parish Network for 200 participants about taking care of church records.Added 300 additional items Digital Archive. Created, curated, & hosted special exhibit on historic NJ church on EP website. Created public interface for EP Digital Archive on EP website. Began building EP social media presence.
$86,593 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2k to $12k (+423%).
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 EPISCOPAL PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Rev Willis Foster
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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) — 86% 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 EPISCOPAL PROJECT’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 EPISCOPAL PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 EPISCOPAL PROJECT.
“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
86% of THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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 EPISCOPAL PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,232 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,232 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT: 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 EPISCOPAL PROJECT?
- THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,000 to it, the largest being Episcopal Church Foundation ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,000 in grants to THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT?
- Episcopal Church Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EPISCOPAL PROJECT 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 2023–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing