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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,461,370 to it, the largest being TR VA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS UW ADW ($5,929,362). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $293M
What Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation is to support the virginia museum of fine arts through a comprehensive fundraising and donor cultivation program and the investment and management of private assets. This support enhances the ability of the museum of fine arts (museum), an agency of the commonwealth of virginia. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Over the past year the foundation has managed the private institutional advancement program for the virginia museum of fine arts, an agency of the commonwealth of virginia. The results of those fund raising efforts are reflected in the data listed on this return. In addition, endowments held in trust by the foundation for the benefit of the museum have been invested, the managers evaluated, the investment policy reviewed, and funds distributed in accordance with donor intent.
$40,850,359 spentof which $39,336,802 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $40,850,359.
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 2020 to 2021, from $286M to $356M (+25%).
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: 2019 13% · 2020 43% · 2021 3% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $868k → $2.7M.
24 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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: $36M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Inc Restricted u/w of Lettie Pate Evans). These are real filings, and they are not money Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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 Fine Arts Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
49% 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 Fine Arts Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 25% · 2019 47% · 2020 27% · 2021 47% · 2022 52% · 2023 44% — broadly stable.
“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
54% of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 Fine Arts Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation
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
87% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vmfa Real Estate Company LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation?
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,461,370 to it, the largest being TR VA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS UW ADW ($5,929,362). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $20,461,370 in grants to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation?
- TR VA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS UW ADW is the largest funder on record, with $5,929,362 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 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 84 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