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VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Virginia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,137,083 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($650,879). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art does
Mission
The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (virginia moca) is a non-profit institution which exists to foster awareness, exploration, and understanding of the significant art of our time. Accredited by the american alliance of museums, virginia moca's integration of its four primary activities-gallery exhibitions, studio art classes, educational programs, and the boardwalk art show - virginia moca engages a diverse regional public in the rich and active language of contemporary visual art. Its annual attendance across all events, including the renowned annual boardwalk art show, is more than 300,000.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions: virginia moca,an aam-accredited, non-collecting museum, is dedicated to showcasing exceptional contemporary art that resonates both locally and nationally, reflecting our shared human experience. The museum's four exhibition spaces host approximately 20 exhibitions annually, with major shows featured in the main gallery up to three times per year. Recent past exhibitions have included the work of mark dion and alexis rockman. Virginia moca is committed to accessibility, offering free admission to all exhibitions.
$1,554,857 spent$24,681 earned by the program75% of program spendingEducation: close looking and inquiry-based exploration anchor education for youth, students, families, teachers, and adults at vmoca. Coupled with understanding the ideas behind the work is materials and methods instruction. Programs include school tours (on site and virtual), artist- in-residence programs in the museum atrium space, regular and free family fest days; youth and adult studio classes; master classes with presenting artists; lectures in the galleries; presentation and celebrations of student work; summer art camps, and continuing education for teachers. Many education programs are free, and for those that are not, scholarship funding is available.
$381,495 spent$93,865 earned by the program18% of program spendingBoardwalk art show: this annual event, now in its 69th year, was the seed from which the current museum sprung. The museum celebrates its local and artistic communities with this free, 3-day outdoor exhibition of original artwork, across media, on the iconic virginia beach boardwalk. Close to 30,000 visitors connect with a couple hundred artists, exploring their work, learning about their practice, and buying artwork. Corporate and individual sponsors from across the region provide support, while patrons make a visit to the free and easily accessible boardwalk art show a yearly pilgrimage. The city of virginia beach considers the vmoca boardwalk art show a signature event for the city. The art show is embedded in the dna of virginia beach given the art show began 7 years before the city of virginia beach was formed.
$147,701 spent$100,084 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,084,053.
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 $2.3M to $6.4M (+183%).
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 9% · 2018 7% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 57% · 2022 48% · 2023 32% · 2024 31% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Bruce Berlin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $92k → $412k.
8 of 37 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 36% · 2019 33% · 2020 32% · 2021 19% · 2022 19% · 2023 19% — 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
47% of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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 VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART'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 7 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$32k
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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: 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 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART?
- VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Virginia) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,137,083 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($650,879). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,137,083 in grants to VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing