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The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated

The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,210 to it, the largest being ROBERT G CABELL III AND MAUDE MORGAN CABELL FOUNDATION ($439,591). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$434k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$853k
Net assets
$3.4M
5/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated does

Mission

Elevating awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We create original, thought-provoking exhibitions through which visitors appreciate the presence of architecture and design throughout their daily lives and realize that each of us has a role in designing our world.Through lectures and programming, we educate the public on the importance of design and architecture in their daily lives and illustrate how all who experience good design are elevated by it. By challenging vistors to find inspiration in Virginia's heritage of great design, they are better prepared to design our future.We welcome adults and students into our exhibitions, tours, and educational programs, helping them understand design and its power to transform the human experience.

    $386,572 spent$90,818 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $386,572.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($373k) Expenses 100 ($381k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 112 ($419k) Expenses 77 ($295k) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 196 ($731k) Expenses 136 ($517k) Net assets 108 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 281 ($1.0M) Expenses 75 ($285k) Net assets 126 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 100 ($372k) Expenses 88 ($336k) Net assets 128 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 85 ($319k) Expenses 151 ($575k) Net assets 119 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 152 ($568k) Expenses 155 ($593k) Net assets 118 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 116 ($434k) Expenses 145 ($554k) Net assets 114 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (145)Net assets (114)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.5M to $3.8M (+8%).

$3.3M
$3.4M
$3.5M
$3.8M
$3.8M
$3.6M
$3.6M
$3.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 27% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’17
$124k
’18
$214k
’19
$762k
’20
$36k
’21
−$256k
’22
−$26k
’23
−$120k
’24
5.3
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed211477810107
Joined·+1+1+0+1+4+1+3
No longer listed·8800216
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $43k → $48k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Foundation for Architecture Incorporated’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 Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

52%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 55% · 2019 59% · 2020 56% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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

40% of The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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

90% of The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

MI
NY
VA
DE
DC
FL

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. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 32%Fundraising 5%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

48%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Branch House Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated?
The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,210 to it, the largest being ROBERT G CABELL III AND MAUDE MORGAN CABELL FOUNDATION ($439,591). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $853,210 in grants to The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated?
ROBERT G CABELL III AND MAUDE MORGAN CABELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $439,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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