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Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC (Virginia) is funded by 30 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,370,110 in grants to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY ($387,300). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,477 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,477 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
67% of VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$29k from 3 funders in 2025, up from $46k and 5 in 2017.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 28% · 2019 38% · 2020 39% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 38% · 2024 51% · 2025 53% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
44% of VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC'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.
VIRGINIA DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC is locally rooted: 61% of its grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 30 funders put you typical 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
78% of spending goes to programs.
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 30funders 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. view filing