Virginia · Nonprofit
THE FAISON CENTER INC
THE FAISON CENTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,277,336 to it, the largest being COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS ($6,000,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE FAISON CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Next for Autism Incportfolio match
- The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of THE FAISON CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
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 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $444k → $456k.
10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 FAISON CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE FAISON CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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: 2017 56% · 2018 83% · 2019 63% · 2020 90% · 2021 86% · 2022 86% · 2023 24% — 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
43% of THE FAISON CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
98% of THE FAISON CENTER INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 50 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared funderslocalVA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you
- Next for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Add Impact Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teamsters Local 25 Autism Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kistler Tiffany Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Shore Autism Circleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The O'Donnell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Suzanne McGraw Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asociacion De Puertorriquenos en Marcha Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THE FAISON CENTER INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- 1701 Byrd Ave LLC · disregarded
- The Faison Residence LLC · disregarded
- The Faison School for Autism LLC · disregarded
- 5215 West Broad Street LLC · disregarded
- 5215 West Broad Commercial LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FAISON CENTER 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 FAISON CENTER INC?
- THE FAISON CENTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,277,336 to it, the largest being COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS ($6,000,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FAISON CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $10,277,336 in grants to THE FAISON CENTER INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FAISON CENTER INC?
- COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FAISON CENTER 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 50funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing