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VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,391,787 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($550,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.6M
Revenue FY2025
22
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$75M
Net assets
14/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.3M) Expenses 100 ($6.5M) Net assets 100 ($33M)2018 Revenue 184 ($12M) Expenses 108 ($7.0M) Net assets 116 ($38M)2019 Revenue 221 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($6.5M) Net assets 141 ($46M)2020 Revenue 156 ($9.8M) Expenses 108 ($7.0M) Net assets 142 ($46M)2021 Revenue 69 ($4.3M) Expenses 80 ($5.2M) Net assets 186 ($61M)2022 Revenue 75 ($4.7M) Expenses 79 ($5.1M) Net assets 159 ($52M)2023 Revenue 91 ($5.7M) Expenses 104 ($6.7M) Net assets 174 ($57M)2024 Revenue 111 ($7.0M) Expenses 99 ($6.4M) Net assets 203 ($66M)2025 Revenue 89 ($5.6M) Expenses 94 ($6.1M) Net assets 229 ($75M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (94)Net assets (229)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

39% of VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$160k
17
$4.6M
18
$7.5M
19
$2.8M
20
$871k
21
$379k
22
$977k
23
$589k
24
$436k
25
18
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $527k → $244k.

12 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $389k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION’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

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

77% 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 COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION.

23%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 69% · 2019 31% · 2020 40% · 2021 54% · 2022 34% · 2023 43%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

40% of VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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

64% of VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION'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 $868k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states.

MI
NY
NJ
VA
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

76%

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 VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION?
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,391,787 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($550,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,391,787 in grants to VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FOUNDATION?
FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 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 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing