Virginia · Nonprofit
THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND
THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,455,325 to it, the largest being SHELTON H SHORT JR TRUST ($500,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Virginia College Fund does
Mission
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. Provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Distributions of public contributions to member colleges and universities
$571,118 spentof which $566,289 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $571,118.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $558k 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.
92% of THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Brad N Hall
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $284k → $77k.
2 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 67% · 2019 54% · 2020 36% · 2021 14% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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
45% of THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND's revenue fell 95% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,015 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: 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 VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND?
- THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,455,325 to it, the largest being SHELTON H SHORT JR TRUST ($500,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,455,325 in grants to THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND?
- SHELTON H SHORT JR TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 35 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