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THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION
THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,337 to it, the largest being Virginia Law Foundation ($315,450). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $705k
- Net assets
- $0
What The John Marshall Foundation does
Mission
Mission & vision - the john marshall center preserves and honors the founding legacy of john marshall by engaging and educating learners of all ages about our constitutional history, the rule of law, and civics - inspiring them toward a more perfect union. Like marshall, we envision "... A constitution intended to endure," a constitutional education for all.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The john marshall center joined the virginia museum of history & culture as a signature study center in 2023, and serves as a hub for civics education throughout the commonwealth of virginia and beyond.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The john marshall center, founded in 1987, educates learners of all ages about constitutional history and civics and explores the life and legacy of chief justice john marshall (1755-1835).
$150,778 spent$238,346 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $150,778.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $648k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $51k → $140k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $119k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION’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 JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 70% · 2019 71% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 41% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
79% of THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION
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
17% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION: 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 JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION?
- THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,337 to it, the largest being Virginia Law Foundation ($315,450). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $705,337 in grants to THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION?
- Virginia Law Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $315,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JOHN MARSHALL FOUNDATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 17 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