Virginia · Nonprofit
UP RVA
UP RVA (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,448,302 to it, the largest being COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS ($1,788,760). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Up Rva does
Mission
Up Rva aims to bridge the gap between children from limited economic resources in the city of richmond and independent schools. This bridge also extends to richmond public school students who have access to our after- school program and transportation services. We will build this bridge by providing services that advocate, support, and empower students to take advantage of this educational opportunity that was once thought to be unattainable. Assistance is also provided to students who have progressed through the Up Rva program and are now attending college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Up Rva builds a bridge between economically disadvantaged children from the city of richmond, va and surrounding independent schools. Up Rva also provides support through college and tuition support to older students. Up Rva provides support in the following ways: -daily transportation to and from independent schools in richmond, va. -after school program from 4 p.m.-8 p.m. That offers tutors, laptop access, and dinner for each student. -summer remediation. -assistance with the extra financial obligation of attending an independent school (ex. Field trip costs, meal plans, athletic fees, etc.). -communication between independent schools and families - each of Up Rva's students begins the school year with an action plan in place with their specific school. These plans are customized to maximize social and academic success for the individual student. -Up Rva's students also completed a three-week independent school boot camp that exposed them to math curriculum, academic service professionals, and a crash course in technology.
$1,169,380 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,169,380.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.1M to $3.9M (+26%).
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 1% · 2021 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of UP RVA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Anne Rusbuldt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $46k → $1.2M.
9 of 43 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 UP RVA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
UP RVA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
26% 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 UP RVA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 63% · 2019 66% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 39% · 2023 21% — 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
65% of UP RVA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
87% of UP RVA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
UP RVA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UP RVA
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UP RVA: 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 UP RVA?
- UP RVA (Virginia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,448,302 to it, the largest being COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS ($1,788,760). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UP RVA have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $5,448,302 in grants to UP RVA, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UP RVA?
- COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $1,788,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UP RVA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 43 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