Virginia · Nonprofit
Trades and Tech Education Foundation
Trades and Tech Education Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000,111 to it, the largest being MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION INC ($10,182,525). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Trades and Tech Education Foundation does
Mission
The Trades Tech Education Foundation promotes careers in skilled trades and technical fields for high school students and adult learners in the piedmont region of Virginia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Trades Tech Education Foundation promotes careers in skilled trades and technical fields for high school students and adult learners in the piedmont region of Virginia. This is accomplished through providing scholarship awards for learners seeking employment/training in the skilled trades.
$23,468 spentof which $19,088 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $23,468.
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 2024 to 2025, from $796k to $1.1M (+41%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Trades and Tech Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Linda Seaman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $497k → $2.3M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Trades and Tech Education Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Trades and Tech Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 49% · 2018 78% · 2019 87% · 2020 87% · 2021 92% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Trades and Tech Education 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. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Trades and Tech Education Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Trades and Tech Education 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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Trades and Tech Education 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 Trades and Tech Education Foundation?
- Trades and Tech Education Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,000,111 to it, the largest being MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION INC ($10,182,525). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Trades and Tech Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $13,000,111 in grants to Trades and Tech Education Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Trades and Tech Education Foundation?
- MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,182,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trades and Tech Education 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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