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THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,953,846 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($2,182,284). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$13M
Revenue FY2025
23
Funders on record
$4.0M
Grants received
$57M
Net assets
16/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%

Against its field

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin77% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($24M)2018 Revenue 150 ($3.2M) Expenses 129 ($2.6M) Net assets 112 ($27M)2019 Revenue 83 ($1.8M) Expenses 139 ($2.8M) Net assets 111 ($26M)2020 Revenue 118 ($2.6M) Expenses 112 ($2.3M) Net assets 119 ($28M)2021 Revenue 89 ($1.9M) Expenses 106 ($2.1M) Net assets 177 ($42M)2022 Revenue 173 ($3.8M) Expenses 122 ($2.5M) Net assets 170 ($40M)2023 Revenue 169 ($3.7M) Expenses 212 ($4.3M) Net assets 166 ($39M)2024 Revenue 208 ($4.5M) Expenses 195 ($4.0M) Net assets 179 ($43M)2025 Revenue 591 ($13M) Expenses 143 ($2.9M) Net assets 241 ($57M)
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Revenue (591)Expenses (143)Net assets (241)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 17% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$138k
17
$636k
18
$1.0M
19
$288k
20
$218k
21
$1.3M
22
$626k
23
$549k
24
$9.9M
25
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $237k → $590k.

9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC’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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC.

55%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 55% · 2019 47% · 2020 63% · 2021 70% · 2022 74% · 2023 82%growing more concentrated.

“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

56% of THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.

WI
NY
IN
OH
KY
VA
MD
TN
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $941k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 3%Fundraising 5%

Governance

35
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

53%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 9 states

NH
NY
MA
OR
NJ
RI
MD
SC
HI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (10) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC?
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,953,846 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($2,182,284). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,953,846 in grants to THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC?
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,182,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION 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 23funders 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