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VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,851,450 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,185,300). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Virginia Center for the Creative Arts does
Mission
Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity is essential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided ideal working conditions for professional writers, composers and visual artists which includes private studios, housing and meals.
$1,527,996 spent$466,197 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,527,996.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.8M to $7.6M (+56%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 25% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kevin O'Halloran
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $90k → $413k.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 80% · 2019 40% · 2020 69% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 32% — 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
50% of VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
56% of VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Abroad · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: 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 VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS?
- VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS (Virginia) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,851,450 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,185,300). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,851,450 in grants to VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,185,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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